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Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography
Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography
hardback
Published:
29 September, 2003
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780743207294 |
| ISBN10 | 0743207297 |
| Number Of Pages | 640 |
| Item Weight | 979 g |
| Product Dimensions | 158 x 52 x 236 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Simon & Schuster UK |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
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The authorised life of a truly great actor by a highly accomplished novelist, historian and journalist, who happened also to be a friend of the actor and his family. This is a perfect meeting between author and subject matter, Read's prose being comfortably equal to the abundance of material he had to work with, including many private letters as well as various published sources, notably two volumes of diaries. The result is a highly readable account of a private individual who loomed large in public consciousness across the generations, the actor who won an Oscar as Colonel Nicholson in Bridge on the River Kwai being better known to many either as George Smiley or as Ben Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.
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Author's Bio
Piers Paul Read is the author of thirteen acclaimed novels, most recently ALICE IN EXILE, and four works of non-fiction, among them a history of the crusading order, THE TEMPLARS and the international bestseller ALIVE! Past novels have won the Hawthornden Prize and the Geoffrey Faber, Somerset Maugham and James Tail Black Awards. His occasional journalism includes a profile of Sir Alec Guinness written for THE INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE in 1985.