My Face for the World to See
by Hayes, Alfred/ Thomson, David (Introduction by)
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Alfred Hayes (1911–1985) was born into a Jewish family in Whitechapel, London, though his father, a barber, trained violinist, and sometime bookie, moved the family to New York when Hayes was three. After attending City College, Hayes worked as a reporter for the New York American and Daily Mirror and began to publish poetry, including “Joe Hill,” about the legendary labor organizer, which was later set to music by the composer Earl Robinson and recorded by Joan Baez. During World War II Hayes was assigned to a special services unit in Italy; after the war he stayed on in Rome, where he contributed to the story development and scripts of several classic Italian neorealist films, including Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà (1946) and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948), and gathered material for two popular novels, All Thy Conquests (1946) and The Girl on the Via Flaminia (1949), the latter the basis for the 1953 film Act of Love , starring Kirk Douglas. In the late 1940s Hayes went to work in Hollywood, writing screenplays for Clash by Night , A Hatful of Rain , The Left Hand of God , Joy in the Morning , and Fritz Lang’s Human Desire , as well as scripts for television. Hayes was the author of seven novels, a collection of stories, and three volumes of poetry. In addition to My Face for the World to See , NYRB Classics publishes In Love. David Thomson is film critic at The New Republic and has been a frequent contributor to Sight & Sound, Film Comment , The Guardian , and The Independent . He is the author of A Biographical Dictionary of Film and, most recently, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies . He has also written several novels, including Suspects and Silver Light .
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- My Face for the World to See
- Author
- Hayes, Alfred/ Thomson, David (Introduction by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1590176677
- ISBN 13
- 9781590176672
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
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