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Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu Paperback - 1997
by Callow, Simon
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
In this first volume of his masterful, highly acclaimed biography, Simon Callow captures the genius of Orson Welles, revealing a life even more extraordinary than the myths that have surrounded it. "A splendidly entertaining, definitive work".--"Entertainment Weekly" . of photos.
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- Title Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu
- Author Callow, Simon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 688
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date February 1, 1997
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0140254560.G
- ISBN 9780140254563 / 0140254560
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.54 x 1.48 in (21.54 x 14.07 x 3.76 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Actors - United States, Motion picture producers and directors -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95037138
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
In this first installment of his masterful biography, Simon Callow captures the chameleonic genius of Orson Welles as only an actor/director deeply rooted in the entertainment industry could. Here is Welles’s prodigious childhood; his youth in New York, with its fraught partnership with John Houseman and the groundbreaking triumph of his all-black Macbeth; the pioneering radio work that culminated in the notorious 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds; and finally, his work in Hollywood, including an authoritative account of the making of Citizen Kane. Rich in detail and insight, this is far and away the definitive look at Orson Welles—a figure even more extraordinary than the myths that have surrounded him.
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Citations
- New York Times, 05/25/1997, Page 24
- New Yorker (The), 12/07/2015, Page 72