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Charlie Chaplin
Peter Ackroyd
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Description for Charlie Chaplin
Paperback. He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. This book offers Peter Ackroyd's biography that turns the spotlight on Chaplin's life as well as his work, from his theatrical beginnings in music halls to winning an honorary Academy Award. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 210.
He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it?
Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotlight on Chaplin's life as well as his work, from his humble theatrical beginnings in music halls to winning an honorary Academy Award. Everything is here, from the glamour of his golden age to the murky scandals of the 1940s and eventual exile to Switzerland. This masterful brief life offers fresh revelations about one of the most familiar faces of the last century and brings the Little Tramp into vivid colour.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
208g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099287568
SKU
V9780099287568
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-25
About Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
Reviews for Charlie Chaplin
Haunting... Brilliant and unsparing
Simon Callow
Guardian
Compact, engrossing, intelligent
John Carey
Sunday Times
Chaplin's rise makes an enthralling story, and it's one perfectly suited to Peter Ackroyd's prodigious and idiosyncratic talents... Ackroyd acknowledges Chaplin's many human failings, while at the same time giving us a vivid sense of what made the man a genius
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Telegraph
A beautifully judged book, driven by a powerful sense of life’s sadness
Craig Brown
Mail on Sunday
[A] fine biography… The luxury of a short book about a vast life cannot be overestimated
Susie Boyt
Financial Times
Simon Callow
Guardian
Compact, engrossing, intelligent
John Carey
Sunday Times
Chaplin's rise makes an enthralling story, and it's one perfectly suited to Peter Ackroyd's prodigious and idiosyncratic talents... Ackroyd acknowledges Chaplin's many human failings, while at the same time giving us a vivid sense of what made the man a genius
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Telegraph
A beautifully judged book, driven by a powerful sense of life’s sadness
Craig Brown
Mail on Sunday
[A] fine biography… The luxury of a short book about a vast life cannot be overestimated
Susie Boyt
Financial Times