Rewrites: A Memoir

Simon, Neil

ISBN 10: 0684826720 / ISBN 13: 9780684826721

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1996

Beschreibung

A great playwright tells his own dramatic story, and he has SIGNED this copy on the title page. 0.0 0.0 0.0. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 003268

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Rewrites: A Memoir

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1996

Einband: Cloth

Zustand:Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author

Auflage: First Edition...

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Inhaltsangabe:

The autobiography of a successful American playwright who has won virtually all major awards including the Pulitzer and the Tony, which reveals the struggles that went into becoming the success he is today.

Review:

After serving an apprenticeship under Sid Caesar and Phil Silvers in Los Angeles, Neil Simon returned to New York at age 30 to embark on a career as a playwright. Some 35 years and three dozen plays later, the most successful comedy writer in the history of the American stage is still at it. In Rewrites, Simon reflects on his career, his relationship with his older brother and mentor Danny, and the loss of his wife Joan to cancer. Along the way, he reveals the price he has paid for his achievements: "I felt like I had stopped relating to people as friends, relatives, acquaintances.... Instead they turned into my victims, as I ripped their private souls from their being, feeding my hunger, my insatiable desire to use them in my writings, in my plays, in my thoughts."