$14.99
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The uncooked, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The best film star of the previous 75 years covers all the pieces: his traumatic childhood, his profession, his consuming, his ideas on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his best roles, appearing, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With ideas/feedback all through from Joanne Woodward, George Roy Hill, Tom Cruise, Elia Kazan and lots of others.
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Newman at his greatest…together with his self-aware persona, storied marriage and beneficiant charitable actions…this wealthy guide by some means imbues his characters’ ache and pleasure with contemporary technicolor.” —The Wall Road Journal
In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest pal, screenwriter Stewart Stern, started a rare undertaking. Stuart was to compile an oral historical past, to have Newman’s household and pals and people who labored carefully with him, speak in regards to the actor’s life. After which Newman would work with Stewart and provides his aspect of the story. The one stipulation was that anybody who spoke on the report needed to be fully sincere. That very same stipulation utilized to Newman himself. The undertaking lasted 5 years.
The result’s a rare memoir, culled from 1000’s of pages of transcripts. The guide is insightful, revealing, stunning. Newman’s voice is highly effective, typically humorous, typically painful, all the time assembly that top customary of searing honesty. The extra voices—from childhood pals and Navy buddies, from relations and movie and theater collaborators equivalent to Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, Martin Ritt, and John Huston—that run all through add richness and shade and context to the story Newman is telling.
Newman’s typically traumatic childhood is brilliantly detailed. He talks about his teenage insecurities, his early failures with girls, his rise to stardom, his early rivals (Marlon Brando and James Dean), his first marriage, his consuming, his philanthropy, the dying of his son Scott, his sturdy need for his daughters to know and perceive the reality about their father. Maybe essentially the most shifting materials within the guide facilities round his relationship with Joanne Woodward—their love for one another, his dependence on her, the way in which she formed him intellectually, emotionally and sexually.
The Extraordinary Lifetime of an Odd Man is revelatory and introspective, private and analytical, loving and tender in some locations, all the time complicated and profound.
Writer : Knopf (October 18, 2022)
Language : English
Hardcover : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 0593534506
ISBN-13 : 978-0593534502
Merchandise Weight : 1.35 kilos
Dimensions : 6.46 x 1.12 x 9.56 inches
Value: $14.99
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