From slum urchin of Pozzuoli to reigning

queen of the cinema world, here is Sophia

Loren s richly personal story--an introspec-

tive, candid account of her illegitimacy and

poverty, how she overcame the ravages of

war, the rebuffs of ,Rome s movie people,

the fury of the Catholic Church, and crim-

inal prosecution for adultery and public

sinning. There was agony, too, in the choice

of a husband between Cary Grant and Carlo

Ponti. Her incredible fight to have a child

was frustrated by miscarriages and euor-

mous physical and emotional suffering.

Sophia Loren has made seventy films,

with their accompanying triumphs and

tribulations. A. E. Hotchner, who wrote

Doris Day: Her Own Story and before that

Papa Hemingway--both huge best sellers

--has again brought a special quality to

Sophia: Living and Loving that will make

it unique among the personal books of the

coming season.

This is Sophia, telling you not just what

she wants you to know, hut everything--

turning herself inside out and filling the

pages with the pain, sorrow, joys, wisdoms,

frustrations, and dreams which have con-

stituted her life. After Hotchner had fin-

ished his four months of daily interviews,

she said, "My God, I feel like I ve been

through analysis." In effect, that is what

happened. And this boo, k--Sophia: Living

and Loving--is the triumphant result.