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A former Radio 4 'Book of the Week', Ziegler's life of Laurence Olivier draws on over 50 hours of unpublished interviews to offer the fullest portrait yet of the great actor, both on and off stage.
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'Without adulation, sentimentality and or sneer, layer by layer as the 82 years of Olivier's life flow by Ziegler painstakingly uncovers a portrait of a real man. It is enthralling. I took it on holiday and could hardly bear to finish it ... tremendous' Libby Purves, The Times. (The Times)
'A triumph ... It succeeds, as far as is humanly possible, in bringing alive on the page Olivier's magnetic theatrical presence, which those who saw him act will never forget' John Carey, Sunday Times. (Sunday Times)
'An elegant and increasingly compelling book' Simon Callow, Guardian. (Guardian)
'Philip Ziegler's splendid biography confirms the contention that Lord Olivier OM is as great a figure in the history of the English theatre as David Garrick or Sir Henry Irving' Economist. (Economist)
'Philip's book is the Larry I knew' Tarquin Olivier. (Tarquin Olivier)
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'Ziegler is an elegant, unfailingly lucid writer ... Many biographies run out of steam towards the end; this one gains momentum ... An elegant and increasingly compelling book' SIMON CALLOW, Guardian.
'A triumph ... It succeeds, as far as is humanly possible, in bringing alive on the page Olivier's magnetic theatrical presence, which those who saw him act will never forget' JOHN CAREY, Sunday Times.
'While in no sense a hagiography ... it enriched my sense of this amazing, multi-faceted, multi-talented man. When I watch 'Henry V', for the umpteenth time, I shall gaze into his enigmatic eyes with even more awe' ANTONIA FRASER, Guardian Books of the Year.
'It is a joyful and wonderful thing that this definitive and best-sourced biography of Laurence Olivier (for it surely is so) is not written by an insider-ish theatre obsessive ... It is enthralling' LIBBY PURVES, The Times.
'In this zippy, arch life of the actor, Ziegler makes the man behind the mask monstrously human' ROBERT COLLINS, Sunday Times Books of the Year.
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- PublisherMacLehose Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0857051199
- ISBN 13 9780857051196
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages464
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