John Fraser

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An Actor Telling Tales

Beschreibung

An autobiography, in which John Fraser takes us from the council estates of prewar Glasgow to the glamour of 1960s Hollywood and beyond. Funny, honest and observant about himself, his family and his friends, he presents such legendary figures as Rudolf Nureyev, Hedy Lamarr, Dirk Bogarde and Bette Davis in a startling light.

Autor

John Fraser lives near Rome. Previously, he worked in England and Canada. Of Fraser's fiction the Whitbread Award winning poet John Fuller has written: 'One of the most extraordinary publishing events of the past few years has been the rapid, indeed insistent, appearance of the novels of John Fraser. There are few parallels in literary history to this almost simultaneous and largely belated appearance of a mature uvre, sprung like Athena from Zeus's forehead; and the novels in themselves are extraordinary. I can think of nothing much like them in fiction. Fraser maintains a masterfully ironic distance from the extreme conditions in which his characters find themselves. There are strikingly beautiful descriptions, veiled allusions to rooted traditions, unlikely events half-glimpsed, abrupted narratives, surreal but somehow apposite social customs.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Illustrated ed
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781840025040
• ISBN-10: 1840025042
• Artikelnr.: 21131897