One Man Tango [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Quinn, Anthony; Paisner, Daniel

Published by Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 1995

About this Item

As new condition black boards, black cloth spine, gold front cover lettering and decoration, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by Anthony Quinn; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "I believe a man writes the story of his life not in order to remember, but in order to forget. I was never the same man from one day to the next, which is perhaps why I am desperate to know the man I have become, finally. This is it. I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame." - Anthony Quinn. "Anthony Quinn's One Man Tango is about a day of reckoning unlike any other in the rich life of the legendary actor, a day that leaves him to confront a lifetime of memories, wrestle the lingering demons of his youth, and defy the passage of his time on this earth. The story hangs on a simple frame: Quinn is painting at his Italian villa when he receives a large packing box from his first wife, Katherine De Mille. He cannot bring himself to open it, afraid of what he might find inside. Instead, Quinn leaves the box unopened, wakes before the sun the next morning, grabs his bicycle, and takes off on a relective forty-kilometer ride over the seven hills of Rome. It is to be, quite literally, the ride of his life. Here Quinn rediscovers himself - a child of the Mexican Revolution, smuggled into El Paso on a coal wagon; sculpting his father's tombstone as a young boy; studying architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright; preaching for Aimee Semple McPherson; learning his craft at the hands of Michael Chekhov, Akim Tamiroff, and the great John Barrymore. Along the way there are intimate reminiscences of some of Hollywood's brightest stars (such as Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, and Orson Welles), and reflections on the author's short- and long-term affairs with several of Hollywood's leading ladies (including Carole Lombard, Rita Hayworth, and Ingrid Bergman). And there are deliberations on the making of nearly three hundred motion pictures, spanning almost sixty years, including Quinn's defining turns in La Strada, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone; the performances in Viva Zapata! and Lust for Life that earned him Academy Awards; and his visionary role, immortalized on stage and screen, in Zorba the Greek. In One Man Tango Anthony Quinn revisits his triumphs and tragedies with wit and pathos, offering readers a disarmingly candid self-portrait of one of the most powerful, multifaceted, and expressive actors of all time. One Man Tango stands as autobiographical literature of extraordinary force, a distillation of a life as brave and raw and true as the man who lived it." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 008202

Bibliographic Details

Title: One Man Tango [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, New York

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Noli, Suzanne (jacket design); Kahan, Eric (front jacket photograph); Zack, Memo (back jacket photograph)

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition