Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters - Softcover

Coldstream, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753825899 ISBN 13: 9780753825891

Verlag: Orion Publishing Group, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Dirk Bogarde was known as the star of more than sixty films and a critically acclaimed author. To a privileged few, however, he was also a prolific, stimulating and treasured correspondent. Bogarde was a secretive man, who destroyed many of his own papers and diaries. Fortunately, the recipients of his letters treasured them, enabling John Coldstream to bring together this fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished material. Bogarde's letters were invariably frank, gossipy, funny and often malicious. The joy of writing, particularly as he grew older and chose to live in France, was never far away. The letters display the qualities familiar to those who knew the private Bogarde: acute observation, laser-like intelligence, impatience with the foolish, compassion for the needy, a relish for the witty metaphor, and a catastrophic disdain for correct spelling and punctuation. Above all, to read his letters is to hear him talk, and no conversation with Dirk Bogarde was dull.

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John Coldstream is former literary editor of The Daily Telegraph and the author ofDirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0753825899
• ISBN 13: 9780753825891
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 536
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