Are you talking to me?

A Life Through the Movies

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Wit and heartbreak collide in a memoir of a life intertwined with an obsession with film. A ‘Fever Pitch’ for cinema lovers.‘This book will consider the influence of movies on one life, the interaction of celluloid fantasy and the growth of a personality. It’s not just a film buff’s record of his enthusiasms. It’s about how some films do, weirdly, change your life.’Beginning with his first cinema outing, ‘The Mutiny on the Bounty’, and tracing his passion through his growing-up years to adulthood, John Walsh weaves together his own life experiences with his rapturous dependence on key moments in film.The result is a funny, personal, loving account of the magic and drama of the silver screen and its ultimate, all-encompassing power to become larger than (real) life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-08-02
Mått:129 x 198 x 20 mm
Vikt:225 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:338
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:9780007139316
Miljömärkning:Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.

Utforska kategorier

Självbiografi: konst och underhållning inom Biografier
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

John Walsh was born in 1953 in London. He is currently Assistant Editor of the ‘Independent’, he has written for and edited numerous newpapers and magazines. He has been a radio presenter and was director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in 1997.

Recensioner i media

Praise for ‘Are You Talking to Me?’:‘A very funny book, and also an unusually charming one.’ Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year‘For entertainment value it would be hard to beat John Walsh’s Are You Talking to Me?’ Sunday Times, Books of the Year‘Irresistibly funny.’ Daily Telegraph‘Bittersweet in its nostalgia, and smarter and funnier and more moving than “High Fidelity”, this is a grown-up book about growing up.’ Sunday TimesPraise for ‘Falling Angels’:‘A book to be relished.’ William Trevor‘The reader should be warned that this is a book that makes you laugh out loud in public. A magnificent entertainment.’ Independent‘A warm, seamlessly well-written memoir…the prose is fluent, its craftmanship meticulous. The dialogue is dead-on: the hungry father could “eat a reverend mother’s arse through a cane chair”…Walsh’s affection for his subject matter is infectious.’ Lionel Shriver, Guardian