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NEW BOOK BY BASS HEIRESS IS ABOUT A FAMILY-IAR SUBJECT

Call it a case of art imitating life — with perhaps a few daddy issues mixed in.

Hyatt Bass, daughter of billionaire oilman Sid Bass, has a new book out that has elements that might ring familiar to the Bass family.

Called “The Embers,” the novel — a first for Hyatt — tells the story of the Ascher family, which is led by the larger-than-life and egotistical Joe, a famous actor and playwright whose affair with a longtime producer leads to a messy divorce.

The book is told from the perspective of Joe’s daughter Emily, on whom Joe dotes, it seems, at the expense of his wife, Laura, who even after getting remarried to a rich Texan still carries the wounds of the collapse of her first marriage, and remains distant from her daughter.

It’s a subject that Hyatt Bass knows firsthand: Her parents Sid and Anne H. Bass divorced in the mid-1980s after Sid met Mercedes Kellogg, who was then the wife of Ambassador Francis Kellogg. Sid and Mercedes married in 1988 in a lavish wedding.

Anne Bass reportedly received a $200 million settlement as part of her divorce from Sid.

To be sure, “The Embers” isn’t entirely autobiographical. While Joe and Laura have two kids in the book, one of them is a son who dies, which looms large over each family member, especially Emily, who is about to get married on the very spot where her brother’s ashes are spread in the Berkshires.

Hyatt Bass is no stranger to storytelling. Before she jumped into fiction, she wrote and directed a movie, “75 Degrees in July,” about a New York sculptor who returns to her Texas home to reconnect with her family.