The new confessions / by William Boyd
1987, 1st Edition. London: Hamish Hamilton. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #341273
ISBN: 0241123836
Physical description: 462 pages. Summary: The outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the 20th century. John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the Twenties, then moves on to Hollywood ... to ordeal by McCarthyism and eventual escape to Europe'. Subjects: Todd, John James 1899-. Motion picture producers and directors; Fiction. English fiction 20th century Texts
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.); Fiction. Fiction. 20th century fiction.
Price: €28.00