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Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles

Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles

Thomson, David

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing Arts20th Century United States HistoryFilmmaking

ISBN10: 0679772839
ISBN13: 9780679772835
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Sep 30 1997
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.21 Depth: 7.97
Language: English
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Easily the best book on Orson Welles. --The New Yorker

Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into a sustaining tragedy--his thing, his song. Now the prodigal genius of the American cinema finally has the biographer he deserves. For, as anyone who has read his novels and criticism knows, David Thomson is one of our most perceptive and splendidly opinionated writers on film.

In Rosebud, Thomson follows the wild arc of Welles's career, from The War of the Worlds broadcast to the triumph of Citizen Kane, the mixed triumph of The Magnificent Ambersons, and the strange and troubling movies that followed. Here, too, is the unfolding of the Welles persona--the grand gestures, the womanizing, the high living, the betrayals. Thomson captures it all with a critical acumen and stylistic dash that make this book not so much a study of Welles's life and work as a glorious companion piece to them.

Insightful, controversial, and highly readable--Rosebud is biography at its best. --Cleveland Plain Dealer

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