The Man Who Unleashed the Birds - Couverture souple

Newman, Paul Nigel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1898343136 ISBN 13 : 9781898343134

Editeur : Abraxas Editions, 2010

Synopsis

In 1963 the world of entertainment was transfixed by the terrifying mo 'The Birds' directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier. But what many people do not know was that the same story had been written thirty years earlier by a brilliant young writer called Frank Baker who depicted the city of London falling apart as it was mercilessly attacked by a mysterious flock of birds. This novel had been long-forgotten and Baker was smarting in penury as he watched what he saw as his own creation go on to reap thousands of dollars. He communicated his anxieties both to Hitchcock and Du Maurier. The first ignored him; the second sympathised and consoled; but this did not salve his torment. Isolated and neglected, bisexual and devoted to alcohol, he felt very much a literary leftover, hiding away with his family mainly in the duchy of Cornwall, about which he wrote with tremendous passion in his brooding, melodramatic first novel 'The Twisted Tree' (1935), in which a mother sacrificed her son. But he was actually a writer of worldwide renown whose classic supernatural comedy Miss Hargreaves was adapted for the London stage with his friend, Margaret Rutherford, taking the leading role. And yet, although he'd been saluted by several critics and a film had been made, starring Robert Donat, of his heart-rending novel 'Lease of Life', the greater body of his work remained unknown. This pioneering biography tells the story of this talented, tormented and intensely likeable man who for a while was organist for Bernard Walke at St Hilary, near Land's End, later becoming an actor and author in London, and finally returning to Cornwall and settling amid a circle of gifted artists and friends.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abraxas Editions
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1898343136
• ISBN 13: 9781898343134
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible