New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. Good/Good. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 373 p.p., Shelf wear; shelf lean; head and tail of spine and corners of cover bumped; head and tail of dust jacket spine previously creased; small marks on side and top page edges; edges of dust jacket rubbed; edges of cover rubbed; original price intact; pages clean and unmarked. .

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Title

ORSON WELLES: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius

Publisher

St. Martin's Press, New York, NY

Publication Date

1985

Language

English

ISBN 10

0312589298

ISBN 13

9780312589295

Binding

Hardcover w/DJ

Illustrator

Black & White Plates

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Good/Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

Seller catalogs

Biography & Autobiography-Welles, O

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Synopsis

This full-scale, illustrated biography provides an in-depth profile of the visionary actor/writer/director whose prodigious talents, gargantuan appetites, and personal demons contributed to a tumultuous life and career marked by brilliant accomplishments and abysmal failures.

Reviews

This is the second full-length biography of one of the most colorful and controversial figures in 20th-century show business. The other, Barbara Leaming's recent study ( LJ 8/85), had the advantage of Welles's cooperation. Not only that, but it is better written and better researched and provides a generally more reflective look at its subject. Higham's book is curiously shaped; it spends an inordinate amount of time tracing Welles's genealogy, but gives a mere 30 pages to the last 35 years of his life. Only an exceptionally comprehensive collection would require this. Thomas Wiener, ``American Film,'' Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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