The Empress of Ireland - Couverture rigide

Robbins, Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743220714 ISBN 13 : 9780743220712

Editeur : Scribner, 2004

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Winner of the 2004 Saga Award for Wit
One old raconteur, one fledgling bon viveur and a lifetime of rollicking tales . . .
Very funny and genuinely moving, The Empress of Ireland is an inspiring portrait of the unique and improbable friendship between Christopher Robbins, then an impoverished writer in his twenties, and Brian Desmond Hurst, Ireland's most prolific film director.
It began when the author - a journalist who had never read a script - was asked to write the screenplay for Hurst's swansong movie, an ambitious biblical epic intended to be his ticket to heaven. As work commenced on the 'Box Office Blockbuster', and later the director's life story, the 'Big Bestseller', an unlikely but uproarious rapport was born. Full of character, incident and humour, Robbins' memoir is a warm and wonderful tribute to friendship and to one of life's true originals.
'A delightful and often hilariously funny memoir'
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
'Both moving and genuinely hilarious'
Gyles Brandreth, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year
'Magnificent . . . Something of a masterpiece, in fact'
Simon Callow, Guardian
'Comedy and pathos abound in this pithy comic masterpiece'
Christopher Silvester, Sunday Times Books of the Year
'Highly entertaining . . . Hurst looms as a thoroughly engaging and remarkably witty figure throughout . . . Such an enjoyable read'
Michael Dwyer, Irish Times
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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Christopher Robbins was a bright but impoverished young journalist when he met Brian Desmond Hurst in the early 1970s. Hurst was then in the twilight of his career as Ireland's most prolific film director -- many years had passed since he'd made his most famous film, an adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with Alastair Sim in 1951. But Brian's formidable desire, energy and joie de vivre were still much in evidence, and Robbins was contracted to write the screenplay for Hurst's swansong, a vast biblical epic starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Redgrave.
Thus began a friendship that lasted until Brian's death in 1986. It was a period full of laughter, eccentricity, laughter, travel, adventure -- and laughter. They made an odd pair -- the elderly, theatrical and larger-than-life Hurst and the young, slightly naïve but keen Robbins -- but Chris now acknowledges the debt he owes his mentor: a debt of friendship he wants to repay. This wonderful book is the result.
The Box Office Blockbuster never happened, but in trying to get the project off the ground Chris had entered Brian's world. This, his memoir of that time and their friendship, is a wonderfully engaging and often hilarious portrait of one of the last great eccentrics.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743220714
• ISBN 13: 9780743220712
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384