Based on a True Story (e-bog) af Holden, Anthony
Holden, Anthony (forfatter)

Based on a True Story e-bog

68,48 DKK (inkl. moms 85,60 DKK)
From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers' lives into one. Author of 35 books on a ';crazy' range of subjects,this cocky Lancashire lad-turned-bohemian citizen of the world has led an apparently charmed life from Merseyside to Buckingham Palace, the White House and beyond. As he tu...
E-bog 68,48 DKK
Forfattere Holden, Anthony (forfatter)
Udgivet 28 oktober 2021
Længde 276 sider
Genrer BGLA
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781471154706
From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers' lives into one. Author of 35 books on a ';crazy' range of subjects,this cocky Lancashire lad-turned-bohemian citizen of the world has led an apparently charmed life from Merseyside to Buckingham Palace, the White House and beyond. As he turns 70, the award-winning journalist and biographer grandson of an England footballer, son of a seaside shopkeeper, friend of the famous from Princess Diana to Peter OToole, Mick Jagger to Salman Rushdie spills the beans on showbiz names to literary sophisticates, rock stars to royals as he looks back whimsically and wittily on a richly varied, anecdote- and action-packed career concluding, in the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, that ';Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well'.