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My Movie Business: A Memoir
by John Irving
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375503684
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503689
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
New York. Random House. 1999. White paper boards with bright white transition strip to cloth-wrapped spine. Gilt lettering to this First Edition (stated) First Printing having requisite number line ending in 2 as required for Random House First Editions. Signed by author on second front free endpaper. Unclipped ($19.95) jacket is protected with a removable mylar cover. Name the book, watch the movie or not; not all of the author's books were made into a movie (e.g. Setting Free the Bears). But many where turned into a movie (The Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire). Not just just a memoir for Mr. Irving, the book provides an insight into the difference between writing a novel and writing a screenplay. Twenty-eight pages of BW photos. 5.75x9.5 in. 170 pg.
Synopsis
John Winslow Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. He is the author of nine novels, among them A Prayer for Owen Meany and A Widow for One Year. Mr Irving is married and has three sons; he lives in Toronto and in southern Vermont. From the Hardcover edition.
Reviews
On Feb 1 2009, Hazelwood_Booksellers said:
John Irving, one of the great writer's of the modern era, with literary classics to his credit such as: 'Cider House Rules' and 'The World According to Garp', brings the full force of his prose to a memoir of his thirteen years in Hollywood, bringing his classic, 'Cider House Rules', to the silver screen (via four different directors.) Irving also details two of the other movies made into -- but not from -- his novels: 'The World According to Garp' and 'Hotel New Hampshire'. As well, he delves into his failed efforts to make his original debut work, 'Setting Free the Bears', into a motion picture. This is an intricately insightful memoir of the learning's in the differences between writing a timeless classic, and turning it into a movie. A generously illustrated autobiographical account of one of America's most rightfully renowned novelists. A must have, must read for the lover and collector of all things Irving.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 270
- Title
- My Movie Business: A Memoir
- Author
- John Irving
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0375503684
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503689
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 170
- Size
- octavo
- Keywords
- Memoir, Hollywood, Movie
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