Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Kanfer, Stefan

Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400078042)

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Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Kanfer, Stefan

Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando

$19.00
Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Kanfer, Stefan

Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando

$19.00
Format: Paperback
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Stefan Kanfer, acclaimed biographer of Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, now gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the man and the work to give us a stunning and illuminating appraisal. Beginning with Brando's turbulent childhood, Kanfer follows him to New York where he made his star-making Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at age twenty-three. Brando then decamped for Hollywood, and Kanfer looks at each of Brando's films over the years--from The Men in 1950 to The Score in 2001--offering deft and insightful analysis of his sometimes brilliant, sometimes baffling performances. And, finally, Kanfer brings into focus Brando's self-destructiveness, ambivalence toward his craft, and the tragedies that shadowed his last years.

Author: Stefan Kanfer
ISBN-10: 1400078040
ISBN-13: 9781400078042
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2009
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.26w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/06/2009 pg. 60
By Stefan Kanfer
By Stefan Kanfer
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Stefan Kanfer's books include The Eighth Sin, A Summer World, The Last Empire, Serious Business, Groucho, Ball of Fire, and Stardust Lost. He was a writer and editor at Time for more than twenty years and was its first bylined film critic, a post he held between 1967 and 1972. He is also the primary interviewer in the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Line King and editor of an anthology of Groucho Marx's comedy, The Essential Groucho. He is a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and the recipient of numerous writing awards. He lives in New York City and on Cape Cod.

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