The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir: Based on Interviews and Oral Histories Conducted By Stewart Stern [VINTAGE 2022]

Newman, Paul; Rosenthal, David (compiler and editor)

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2022

Beschreibung

New condition black boards, black spine and silver spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Paul Newman; Foreword by Melissa Newman; Introduction; Afterword by Clea Newman Soderlund; Editor's Note; Index; Photographic Credits and A Note About the Authors. Illustrated with 41 black-and-white photographs from the family archive. "This book came out of the struggle to try and explain it all to my kids. I want to leave some kind of record that sets things straight, pokes holes in the mythology that's sprung up around me, destroys some of the legends, and keeps the piranhas off. Something that documents the time I was on this planet with some kind of accuracy. Because what exists on the record now has no bearing at all on the truth. That's all I really want to do." - Paul Newman, from the rear outer jacket. "In 1986, Pau lNewman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, embarked on an ambitous project. Stewart was to compile an oral history, asking Newman's family and friends and those who worked closely with him to talk about the actor's life. And then Newman would work with Stewart to offer his side of the story. The only stipulation was that anyone who spoke on the record had to be completely honest. That same stipulation applied to Newman himself. The project lasted five years. The result is an extraordinary memoir, culled from thousands of pages of transcripts only recently rediscovered. The book is insightful, revealing, surprising. Newman's voice is powerful: sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always, above all else, truthful. The additional voices that run throughout - from childhood friends and Navy buddies, from family members and film and theater collaborators such as Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, Martin Ritt, and John Huston - add richness and color and context to the story Newman tells. He recounts in brilliant detail his often traumatic childhood, his teenage insecurities, his youthful failures with women, his rise to stardom, his early rivals (Brando and Dean), his first marriage, his drinking, his philanthropy, the death of his son, Scott, and his desire for his daughters to understand the truth about their father. Perhaps the most moving material in the book centers on his relationship with Joanne Woodward - their deep love for each other, the ways she shaped him intellectually, emotionally, and sensually, and his enduring reliance on her. Revelatory and introspective, loving and candid, complex and profound, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man provides a new understanding of perhaps the greatest movie star of our time, a man many admired but few really knew - from the perspective of the man himself." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 010570

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir: Based on Interviews and Oral Histories Conducted By Stewart Stern [VINTAGE 2022]
• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• Einband: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Gall, John (jacket design); Davidson, Bruce (jacket front photograph)
• Druck: 2nd Printing
• Zustand: New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New