Record Number |
742653 |
ISBN |
9780141046914 (paperback) |
Author |
Boyd, William, 1952- author. |
Title |
The new confessions / William Boyd. |
Publisher/Date |
London : Penguin, 2010, c1987. |
Pagination etc. |
571 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents note |
First published: Hamish Hamilton, 1987. |
Summary Note |
The New Confessions is 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 twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ... 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'. |
Subject |
Motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction |
Humorous stories |
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction |
Shelf Location |
F BOYD |