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Orson Welles: Genius flounders into legend.
"Rosebud" offers a deeply human look into the enigmatic life of Orson Welles, from his meteoric rise with "Citizen Kane" to his narrative of splendid failures. David Thomson, with his unique blend of critical sharpness and stylish prose, presents a portrait that is as captivating as it is informative. If you're drawn to monumental figures and their paradoxes, Thomson's account delivers a beautifully intricate tapestry of a man larger than life itself.
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ISBN: 9780679772835
Authors:
David Thomson
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 1997-09-30
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.57
(rated by 341 readers)
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year"Easily the best book on Orson Welles." --The New YorkerOrson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into "a sustaining tragedy"--his thing, his song. Now the prodigal genius of the American cinema finally has the biographer he deserves. For, as anyone who has read his novels and criticism knows, David Thomson is one of our most perceptive and splendidly opinionated writers on film.In Rosebud, Thomson follows the wild arc of Welles's career, from The War of the Worlds broadcast to the triumph of Citizen Kane, the mixed triumph of The Magnificent Ambersons, and the strange and troubling movies that followed. Here, too, is the unfolding of the Welles persona--the grand gestures, the womanizing, the high living, the betrayals. Thomson captures it all with a critical acumen and stylistic dash that make this book not so much a study of Welles's life and work as a glorious companion piece to them."Insightful, controversial, and highly readable--Rosebud is biography at its best." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Orson Welles: Genius flounders into legend.
"Rosebud" offers a deeply human look into the enigmatic life of Orson Welles, from his meteoric rise with "Citizen Kane" to his narrative of splendid failures. David Thomson, with his unique blend of critical sharpness and stylish prose, presents a portrait that is as captivating as it is informative. If you're drawn to monumental figures and their paradoxes, Thomson's account delivers a beautifully intricate tapestry of a man larger than life itself.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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