Stranger At Home
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous owner
A novel of sharp wit and wry self-awareness, Stranger at Home presents the semi-autobiographical musings of George Sanders — Hollywood's most celebrated cad — as he turns his sardonic eye on the peculiarities of fame, identity, and belonging. Written by the suave, Oscar-winning actor best known for his villainous screen roles, the narrative charts a life lived perpetually on the outside: a man of Russian birth, British upbringing, and American stardom who never quite felt at home anywhere, in any world he inhabited. Sanders' prose carries the same cool, detached elegance that defined his screen persona, lacing observations on celebrity culture, romance, and rootlessness with a dry humour that is entirely his own. Stranger at Home stands as a fascinating cultural artefact of postwar modernity — a memoir-like work that blurs the line between performance and authenticity, leaving the reader to wonder where the actor ends and the man truly begins.
Author: George Sanders
Format: Hardback
Published: 1947, The Pilot Press Ltd
Genre: Fiction
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous owner
A novel of sharp wit and wry self-awareness, Stranger at Home presents the semi-autobiographical musings of George Sanders — Hollywood's most celebrated cad — as he turns his sardonic eye on the peculiarities of fame, identity, and belonging. Written by the suave, Oscar-winning actor best known for his villainous screen roles, the narrative charts a life lived perpetually on the outside: a man of Russian birth, British upbringing, and American stardom who never quite felt at home anywhere, in any world he inhabited. Sanders' prose carries the same cool, detached elegance that defined his screen persona, lacing observations on celebrity culture, romance, and rootlessness with a dry humour that is entirely his own. Stranger at Home stands as a fascinating cultural artefact of postwar modernity — a memoir-like work that blurs the line between performance and authenticity, leaving the reader to wonder where the actor ends and the man truly begins.