My Movie Business: A Memoir - Hardcover

Irving, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375503684 ISBN 13: 9780375503689

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1999

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The best-selling author of The World According to Garp presents a firsthand account of his involvement--or lack thereof--in the creation of the film versions of his novels, detailing his years of writing and rewriting his screenplay for The Cider House Rules. 100,000 first printing.

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s memoir begins with his account of the distinguished career and medical writings of the novelist's grandfather Dr. Frederick C. Irving, a renowned obstetrician and gynecologist, and includes Mr. Irving's incisive history of abortion politics in the United States. But My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years John Irving spent adapting his novel The Cider House Rules for the screen--for four different directors.
        
Mr. Irving also writes about the failed effort to make his first novel, Setting Free the Bears, into a movie; about two of the films that were made from his novels (but not from his screenplays), The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire; about his slow progress at shepherding his screenplay of A Son of the Circus into production.
        
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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375503684
• ISBN 13: 9780375503689
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 170