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Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane

Patrick McGilligan

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Description for Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane Paperback. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APB; APFB; BGF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 50. Weight in Grams: 768.
On the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years-from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane. In the history of American popular culture, there is no more dramatic story-no swifter or loftier ascent to the pinnacle of success and no more tragic downfall-than that of Orson Welles. In this magisterial biography, Patrick McGilligan brings young Orson into focus as never before. He chronicles Welles's early life growing up in Wisconsin and Illinois as the son of ... Read more

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HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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Paperback

Publication date

2016

Condition

New

Weight

767g

Number of Pages

864

Place of Publication

New York, United States

ISBN

9780062112491

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V9780062112491

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About Patrick McGilligan

Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; and George Cukor: A Double Life; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume Backstory series of interviews ... Read more

Reviews for Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane

[Young Orson] takes the directorial hero from his birth to the threshold of 'Citizen Kane.' I've only just started it and can so far confess to fascination and pleasure; the wealth of detail and the measured tempo are up to the Shakespearean complexity of Welles's character.
New Yorker McGilligan's Orson is a Welles for a new generation...McGilligan's ... Read morebook vibrates with uncertainty and risk, and it hums with the possibility that talented people actually can realize their dreams in the forms they choose.
BookForum No one writes biographies of film legends like Patrick McGilligan... It is a meticulous recreation of Welles's life and achievement up to 1941.
Daily Beast Welles's native brilliance and his ascent from producing plays as a boy at the Todd School to his conquest of New York theater and radio as an adult has seldom been documented with more clarity.
Library Journal (starred review) To read this book is to be taken with just how much meaningful work [Welles] packed into his youth, and awestruck by the self-assurance with which he approached his burgeoning career... With McGilligan's superb biography, we have the definitive portrait of Welles in his youth.
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Engrossing ... Exhaustively researched but well-paced and stuffed with beguiling detail, this is a vivid, sympathetic portrait of Welles's youthful promise and achievement, before the misfires and compromises of his later years.
Publishers Weekly A richly detailed, often nuanced study of Welles' life and work. It's a welcome addition to the burgeoning shelf of books on one of America's most distinctive talents... Although Young Orson reads easily, it is powered by an evenhanded, almost scholarly rigor.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Must reading for anyone interested in the history of film.
Mark Levine, Booklist (starred review) Exhaustively researched but well-paced and stuffed with beguiling detail, this is a vivid, sympathetic portrait of Welles's youthful promise and achievement, before the misfires and compromises of his later years.
Publishers Weekly An indefatigable reporter and masterful biographer, McGilligan has unearthed endless revelations that will change our view of Welles's. This book is a constant joy to read, showing that the truth about Welles's upbringing and youthful artistic triumphs is even more remarkable than the legend.
Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? and Searching for John Ford No other biographer has done such a superb job of investigating Orson Welles's Midwestern origins and dazzling early success. McGilligan convincingly refutes untruths and myths that others have accepted. This is by far the best book on the most formative period of Welles's life.
James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles A prodigious and illuminating account of the extraordinary life of Orson Welles up to when he turned from theater and radio to launch his fabled movie career. McGilligan blends valuable new reporting with insights from existing sources to draw a bold portrait of the master that can fairly be called definitive.
George Stevens, Jr., producer and founder of the American Film Institute In many ways,Young Orson is my favorite of all the Welles biographies to date. The overall portrait of Welles's character and background that emerges, uncharacteristically sympathetic, is both dense and persuasive - and a page-turning pleasure to read.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, author of Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia Show Less

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