Elia kazan autobiography book

          In this amazing autobiography, Kazan at seventy-eight brings to the undiluted telling of his story--and revelation of himself--all the passion, vitality, and.

        1. In this amazing autobiography, Kazan at seventy-eight brings to the undiluted telling of his story--and revelation of himself--all the passion, vitality, and.
        2. In this amazing autobiography, Kazan at seventy-eight brings us the undiluted telling of his story—and revelation of himself—all the passion, vitality, and.
        3. Kazan's autobiography is a long, brooding, and fascinating recall of his eventful life.
        4. Elia Kazan's varied life and career is related here in his autobiography.
        5. Published by Harper Collins, Hardcover First Edition, third printing pages x inches.

          6. Kazan's autobiography is a long, brooding, and fascinating recall of his eventful life....

          Elia Kazan: A Life

          March 15,
          Elia Kazan helped reinvent the art of stage and screen acting, was the favoured director of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams − presenting the first productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman − and 'discovered' Marlon Brando and James Dean.

          He was also unremittingly self-interested, a relentless adulterer who saved his own skin by selling out his old friends in the Communist Party to HUAC: 'naming names' at a notorious public hearing in April

          His aim in this very long, very lively autobiography seems to be to seduce the reader: through gossip, candour, post-rationalisation, calculated self-reproach and some direct addresses that come across as more creepy than personable.

          Does he succeed? Up to a point. He's an entertaining, insidious companion, cannily shapes your perceptions of contemporaries like Clifford Odets, Lee Strasberg and Nicholas Ray through detailed, vividly sketched portraits, and offers you a close-to-front-row s