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The New Confessions: A rich exploration into one man’s life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart
William Boyd
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Description for The New Confessions: A rich exploration into one man’s life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart
Paperback. John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. This book deals with his life and work. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 420.
'Brilliant. A Citizen Kane of a novel' Daily Telegraph
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Meet John James Todd:
Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element'
Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties and beyond.
Suffering imprisonment, shooting, marriage, fatherhood, divorce and McCarthyism, Todd is a hostage to good fortune, ill-judgement, bad luck, the vast sweep of history and the cruel, cruel hand of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141046914
SKU
V9780141046914
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99-99
About William Boyd
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. He is married and ... Read more
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