"The New Confessions" is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ...John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the Twenties, then moves on to Hollywood ...to ordeal by McCarthyism and eventual escape to Europe' - Peter Kemp, "Observer".
0 有用 天黑以后起舞 2018-02-12 17:19:19
Absolutely enjoyable at every page. Very funny, thoughtful, bringing old years back to life. 很多subtle的心思，看过之后懂了年少的自己。从Academy到batterfield，战地摄影记者、编剧再到导演，数种职业中着重描写的几个。Born as a boy to an old man of thre... Absolutely enjoyable at every page. Very funny, thoughtful, bringing old years back to life. 很多subtle的心思，看过之后懂了年少的自己。从Academy到batterfield，战地摄影记者、编剧再到导演，数种职业中着重描写的几个。Born as a boy to an old man of threescore and ten years. 果真没有揭露the possibility as one expected. (展开)