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In Search of Jerusalem
Michael Kustow
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Description for In Search of Jerusalem
Hardcover. In Search of Jerusalem is a personal testament of everything the outspoken writer, film, television and theatre producer Michael Kustow stands for - in a year in which he also finds himself battling cancer. A defiant cultural activist facing mortal danger, he embark Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: ANB; BM; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
"Ranging across the years, In Search of Jerusalem conjures up the spirited encounters of Michael Kustow's many-sided life: a tender evocation of his parents; portraits of actors, stage directors, painters, film-makers; vivid descriptions of post-war and modern Paris, Mumbai, Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank; the early days of Channel 4 television; and new insights a moment of challenge and change. A life shaken up is re-assembled in Kustow's cavalcade of survival and renewal."
"Ranging across the years, In Search of Jerusalem conjures up the spirited encounters of Michael Kustow's many-sided life: a tender evocation of his parents; portraits of actors, stage directors, painters, film-makers; vivid descriptions of post-war and modern Paris, Mumbai, Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank; the early days of Channel 4 television; and new insights a moment of challenge and change. A life shaken up is re-assembled in Kustow's cavalcade of survival and renewal."
Product Details
Publisher
Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
159
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840028720
SKU
V9781840028720
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99-10
About Michael Kustow
"michael kustow is a writer and producer. His books include Peter Brook, a Biography (Bloomsbury 2005), theatre@risk (Methuen 2003) Tank, An Autobiographical Fiction (Cape 1975) ,The Half: Actors Preparing to Go on Stage - text for Simon Annand's photographs (Faber, 2008). He has been Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company ... Read more
Reviews for In Search of Jerusalem
"""One of the biographies of our generation - richly layered, funny, argumentative, moving and intellectually admirable. A great achievement"" Melvyn Bragg "