Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography - Brossura

Read, Piers Paul

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ISBN 10: 145163644X ISBN 13: 9781451636444

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2011

Riassunto

Sir Alec Guiness was one of the greatest actors of the twentieth centuries. With a talent recognised by discerning critics from his very first appearance on the stage, he gained a world-wide reputation.

After his death in August 2000, his widow Merula asked the author Piers Paul Read, who had been a friend of her husband, to write his biography. Given full co-operation by the Guinness family and free access to Sir Alec's papers, including his private and unpublished diaries, Read has produced the definitive portrait: a highly entertaining and penetrating account of an intriguing and complex man.

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Recensione:

Frank McLynn, Independent on Sunday's Books of the Year It may sound hyperbolic to suggest that a "mere" showbiz biography could be a deeply intelligent, acute piece of work, full of humanity and compassion...but that is what Piers Paul Read achieves in his magnificent Alec Guinness.

Keith Baxter, Spectator A splendid biography...Read gives us an astonishingly moving portrait of a very complex man, his loving marriage, and his quest for spiritual solace. It is a warts-and-all portrait but Read effortlessly invokes compassion for his subject...engrossing.

Patrick Garland, The Oldie Piers Paul Read's perceptive study about this much admired and most complicated of actors falls into that rare category of exceptional theatre biographies.

L'autore:

Piers Paul Read is the author of thirteen acclaimed novels, most recently Alice in Exile, and four works of non-fiction, among them a history of the crusading order, The Templars, and the international bestseller Alive! Past novels have won the Hawthornden Prize and the Geoffrey Faber, Somerset Maugham and James Tait Black Awards. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 145163644X
• ISBN 13: 9781451636444
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 632