Dirk Bogarde: The Complete Autobiography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Few careers in twentieth-century entertainment have been as dazzlingly multifaceted as that of Sir Dirk Bogarde — matinee idol, acclaimed dramatic actor, and celebrated author — and Dirk Bogarde: The Complete Autobiography brings together his six celebrated memoirs into one sweeping, unabridged volume. From his idyllic pre-war childhood in Sussex and wartime service that scarred him forever, through his meteoric rise as Britain's biggest box-office star in the 1950s, to his courageous reinvention as a serious European art-house actor in films such as The Servant and Death in Venice, Bogarde chronicles a life lived at the very apex of glamour, creativity, and personal courage. Written with disarming wit, lyrical precision, and an almost novelistic eye for character and atmosphere, these memoirs — beginning with A Postillion Struck by Lightning and culminating in A Short Walk from Harrods — illustrate the interior life of a man who consistently defied the constraints of stardom and convention. Bogarde's prose is elegant and fiercely intelligent, suffused with a melancholy beauty that reflects both his deep love of European culture and the private burdens he carried throughout his life. A portrait of an extraordinary century seen through the eyes of one of its most perceptive witnesses, this collected volume leaves the reader asking: how much of the man behind the legend did we ever truly know?
Author: Dirk Bogarde
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, Mandarin
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Few careers in twentieth-century entertainment have been as dazzlingly multifaceted as that of Sir Dirk Bogarde — matinee idol, acclaimed dramatic actor, and celebrated author — and Dirk Bogarde: The Complete Autobiography brings together his six celebrated memoirs into one sweeping, unabridged volume. From his idyllic pre-war childhood in Sussex and wartime service that scarred him forever, through his meteoric rise as Britain's biggest box-office star in the 1950s, to his courageous reinvention as a serious European art-house actor in films such as The Servant and Death in Venice, Bogarde chronicles a life lived at the very apex of glamour, creativity, and personal courage. Written with disarming wit, lyrical precision, and an almost novelistic eye for character and atmosphere, these memoirs — beginning with A Postillion Struck by Lightning and culminating in A Short Walk from Harrods — illustrate the interior life of a man who consistently defied the constraints of stardom and convention. Bogarde's prose is elegant and fiercely intelligent, suffused with a melancholy beauty that reflects both his deep love of European culture and the private burdens he carried throughout his life. A portrait of an extraordinary century seen through the eyes of one of its most perceptive witnesses, this collected volume leaves the reader asking: how much of the man behind the legend did we ever truly know?