The Real Life of Laurence Olivier - Hardcover

Lewis, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712675507 ISBN 13: 9780712675505

Publisher: Century, 1996

Synopsis

A biography of Laurence Olivier which evaluates his motives and relationships, especially that with Vivien Leigh. The author argues that she was destroyed by the depth of her passion for him, and that he was consumed by guilt and disillusion. Lewis also wrote The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.

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Review:

Confirms Lewis as the most ferociously attentive describer of stage and screen acting since Ken Tynan in his pomp. It's magnificent... (Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman)

I laughed at the bravura of it (Barry Humphries)

Forget the standard showbusiness "life". Lewis has reinvigorated the genre. Unmissable. (Philip Hamer, City Life)

Cheekily measuring up to the larger-than-life bravura of its subject's artistry with a prose performance of corresponding virtuosity (Independent)

Roger Lewis electrifies the interaction between Olivier's life and art (Evening Standard)

From the Publisher:

The acclaimed biography of Laurence Olivier is reissued to coincide with the centenary of his birth

About this edition

• Publisher: Century
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0712675507
• ISBN 13: 9780712675505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272