The New Confessions
Author(s): William Boyd
"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' - Peter Kemp, "Observer".
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.41
- : August 2010
- : 197mm X 130mm X 38mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : 592
- : 1009
- : Paperback
- : William Boyd