Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson - Softcover

McGilligan, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393350967 ISBN 13: 9780393350968

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Synopsis

“Jack’s Life feels true. . . . Fascinating.”―Entertainment Weekly

Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick McGilligan, one of America’s outstanding film biographers, has plumbed research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its publication twenty years ago. Jack’s Life captures the essence of this most private and public of stars with a vivid depiction of Nicholson’s tangled Dickensian upbringing, his hungry years as actor and writer, his nearaccidental breakthrough in Easy Rider, and his prolificacy and artistry ever since, with roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, and The Departed, to name a beloved handful of his sixty-plus films. McGilligan captures the life and legacy of this unabashed and complex personality 74 photographs

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick McGilligan has edited the acclaimed Backstory series and written distinguished biographies of film figures including George Cukor, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, and, most recently, Orson Welles. He lives in Milwaukee.

Review:

“Patrick McGilligan’s book has always been the one Jack deserved―intimate, funny, understanding, an inside job. I sometimes wonder if Jack actually wrote it himself.”
- David Thomson, author of A Biographical Dictionary of Film

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393350967
• ISBN 13: 9780393350968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608