Peter Ackroyd

Alfred Hitchcock

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Produktbeschreibung

So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century?As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 539089
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 217g
• ISBN-13: 9780099287667
• ISBN-10: 0099287668
• Artikelnr.: 43791036

Autorenporträt

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.

Rezensionen

Superb, insightful short life... Deft and moving Bee Wilson The Guardian