Rosebud: The Story Of Orson Welles - Hardcover

Thomson, David

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9780316914376: Rosebud: The Story Of Orson Welles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316914371 ISBN 13: 9780316914376

Publisher: Little, Brown, 1996

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This work charts the life of a man who stilled the world with his performance in "Citizen Kane" in 1941. It traces the rise and fall of one of Hollywood's greatest innovators - raconteur nonpareil, gifted with invention and awesome talent whose early success bored him and triggered the long decline into excess and self-destruction. This biography probes the essential questions surrounding Welles, realizing the ferocious energy and demonic intellect behind the boy genius. Despite his production of dazzling Broadway theatre and radio drama, and his performance - perhaps the best in his career - as Harry Lime in "The Third Man", he lived in a strange twilight world where he felt rejected and hopelessly unfulfilled. The work ends with the final rootless years, when he yielded to obesity and the genius Welles became a tragic figure.

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Review:

Hugely entertaining. (Sunday TIMES)

Marvellous...a great book. (MAIL on Sunday)

The glory of Thomson's superb book is that he never tries to resolve the questions raised; he just makes you want to rewind this bewildering newsreel back to the beginning and puzzle out those questions all over again (Guardian)

Irresistible ... Do the publishers require a shrieking blurb for Rosebud? Glad to oblige. Let them simply recycle, with due attention to the adjective's roots in "terror", the poster slogan for Citizen Kane: "It's terrific!"' (Independent on Sunday)

About the Author:

David Thomson is London-born but has lived and worked in California for over twenty years. He writes and reviews films regularly for major press publications.

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