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Carregando... The Empress of Irelandde Christopher Robbins
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Pertence à série publicadaSlightly Foxed Editions (No. 51)
Very funny and genuinely moving, THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND is an inspiring portrait of the unique and improbable friendship between Christopher Robbins, then an impoverished writer in his twenties, and Brian Desmond Hurst, Ireland's most prolific film director. It began when the author -- a journalist who had never read a script -- was asked to write the screenplay for Hurst's swansong movie, an ambitious biblical epic intended to be his ticket to heaven. As work commenced on the 'Box Office Blockbuster', and later the director's life story, the 'Big Bestseller', an unlikely but uproarious rapport was born. Full of character, incident and humour, Robbins' memoir is a warm and wonderful tribute to friendship and to one of life's true originals. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Nearly half way through the book Christopher Robbins records his suggestion that Brian write his memoirs, but much later (2004) performed this in what reads like an act of fond remembrance, as he puts it:
I knew even then that together they pictured a vanished and more elegant world but at the time saw them at the time as little more than well-spun yarns.
Now I realize their true worth. Brian told stories as a way to process life, to parcel up the pain, order the chaos and confusion, and endow the pointless with meaning. Experience was held on to and made valuable by transmutation into anecdote, preferably amusing. Brian put at least as much effort into the story of his life as he did his life’s work of film.
In reading this book, I initially enjoyed the rakishly flamboyant anecdotes of decadent Tangiers and the criminal Big Freddy, before appreciating the overall story making arc of Brian’s life, including his recollections of Gallipoli in the First World War.
I read the, as ever, elegantly produced Slightly Foxed edition. (