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The New Confessions: A rich exploration into one man’s life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart

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Date: 19 Apr 2023 02:01:25
The New Confessions: A rich exploration into one man’s life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart

The New Confessions: A rich exploration into one man’s life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart by William Boyd
English | December 19, 2013 | ISBN-10: 0241970393 | ISBN-13: 9780241970393 | 691 Pages | EPUB | 1.1 MB

Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties and beyond.

Suffering imprisonment, shooting, marriage, fatherhood, divorce and McCarthyism, Todd is a hostage to good fortune, ill-judgement, bad luck, the vast sweep of history and the cruel, cruel hand of fate . . .

Hours to read: 15 - 16
Total words: 188k
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