Dudley Moore - Hardcover

Fruchter, Rena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091897572 ISBN 13: 9780091897574

Publisher: Ebury Press, 2004

Synopsis

Rena Fruchter was Dudley's concert piano partner, and the friend who looked after him in the final years of his life, until his death at the age of 66. This is her intimate portrait of the extraordinarily brilliant, complex character that was Dudley Moore. During the last ten years of his life Dudley changed. He stepped off the podium and into real life. Physically life was difficult, professionally it was turbulent, but during his final years he blossomed and in the midst of his illness from the debilitating effects of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, he found peace. Rena writes beautifully of Dudley's final years but also take us back through his life story - conveying his inimitable talent, humour and vibrancy, and evoking the atmosphere of a working class upbringing in Forties Britain, life in Fifties London and his relationship with Peter Cook and the excesses of Eighties LA. With style and precision she unravels his personality, looks back at his childhood and career, weaving a moving and compelling story of a unique man.

About this title

Review:

"an essential read for anyone who had fallen beneath the charms of Moore...a lively and warm portrait" -- Manchester Evening News

"an honest and moving account" -- Glasgow Herald

"an intelligent, honest and moving portrait" -- Songs of Praise Magazine

From the Publisher:

Intimate biography of the last days of Dudley Moore, comic genius and concert pianist

About this edition

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0091897572
• ISBN 13: 9780091897574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416