Me and Orson Welles
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE RELEASED IN DECEMBER 2009
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Me and Orson Welles Paperback ISBN: 9780099540199 Published: 01/07/2010 Imprint: Vintage Extent: 288 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP
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Me and Orson Welles Paperback ISBN: 9780099531807 Published: 02/02/2009 Imprint: Vintage Extent: 288 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP Buy Now
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Me and Orson Welles EBook ISBN: 9781409079897 Published: 01/07/2010 Imprint: Vintage Digital Extent: 288 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
SPECIAL TIE-IN EDITION INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE IMAGES FROM THE FILMRichard is a 17-year-old kid from New Jersey with the gift of the gab and an eye for the ladies. He’s bored with school and dreams of making it big in the dazzling world of 1930s Manhattan. This is the story of one week in Richard's life, when he miraculously gets a part in a history-making production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Mercury theatre, New York. It's the week falls in love, and falls out of love again; it's the week he changes his middle name - twice. It's also the week he meets the colossally talented, fearsomely charming, soon-to-be-superstar Orson Welles. After this week, Richard's life will never be the same again.
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More News & BlogBAFTA Award (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) nominations include Random House titles.
Editorial Reviews
"Sleekly groomed, diverting, unpretentious...Orson Welles bestrides this narrative like a colossus...you feel the horror of a gifted artist metastasizing into that most twisted and unnatural of beings: a Star" - Washington Post
"One of the best depictions of male adolescent yearning ever to hit the page" - Kirkus Reviews
"Inventive...in the span of 269 breezy pages, [Richard] falls in love, has his heart broken, sees his showbiz dreams crushed, and--beautifully, almost imperceptibly--becomes a man" - Entertainment Weekly
"Bright, enthusiastic...entertaining" - Publishers Weekly
"Charming romantic fiction" - The Times, Simon Callow
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