Orson Welles, Volume 1

Name: Orson Welles, Volume 1 : The Road to Xanadu
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The Road to Xanadu

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«Welles might seem a difficult subject for a new biography. The legend is already pretty much written in stone. Callow's achievement is threefold: he embraces his subject with such gallumphing energy that the extraordinary power of his subject is conveyed as if for the first, fascinating time; he attempts a sober reassessment, trying to get an honest measure of someone who seemed larger than life...and he provides a genuinely interesting actor's view of the actor»
Nigella Lawson, The Times

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography. Les mer

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Forlag: Vintage
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 688
ISBN: 9780099462514
Utgivelsesår: 1996
Format: 20 x 13 cm

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«Welles might seem a difficult subject for a new biography. The legend is already pretty much written in stone. Callow's achievement is threefold: he embraces his subject with such gallumphing energy that the extraordinary power of his subject is conveyed as if for the first, fascinating time; he attempts a sober reassessment, trying to get an honest measure of someone who seemed larger than life...and he provides a genuinely interesting actor's view of the actor»
Nigella Lawson, The Times

«A book of titanic achievement»
Daily Telegraph

«Simon Callow's brilliant account of the early years is the best Welles book yet»
David Hare

«Callow is not just that rare phenomenon, an actor who can write. He is a superb biographer. His description of the making of Kane is masterly... This is an extraordinary book with extraordinary insights»
Godfrey Hodson, Independent