The Empress of Ireland: A Chronicle of an Unusual Friendship - Couverture souple

Robbins, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1560257091 ISBN 13 : 9781560257097

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2005

Synopsis

Unusual book

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 down-at-the-heels freelance journalist in London when a "friend"—an expat American drug dealer who masqueraded as a count—linked him up with an elderly gay Irishman, purportedly the "greatest Irish filmmaker ever"—which turned out to be the case. Brian Desmond Hurst had made some thirty films in his eighty years (including A Christmas Carol, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Dangerous Moonlight, Simba, and Playboy of the Western World), and was on close terms with people such as John Ford, Laurence Olivier, Noël Coward, Sean O'Casey, Vanessa Redgrave, and a slew of other notables. Hurst immediately hired the young journalist to write the screenplay for his final work, a biblical epic about the birth of Christ, dubbed "The Box Office Blockbuster"—and subsequently his autobiography—"The Big Bestseller." No reader can fail to become spellbound and laugh-out-loud by the wit, warmth of heart, sense of mischief, Celtic charm, and vast appetite for life present in The Empress of Ireland.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1560257091
• ISBN 13: 9781560257097
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400