The New Confessions (Vintage International)

by William Boyd

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The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century.

`An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ... John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the Twenties, then moves on to Hollywood ... to ordeal by McCarthyism and eventual escape to Europe' Peter Kemp, Observer.

  • ISBN10 0307787095
  • ISBN13 9780307787095
  • Publish Date 10 May 2014 (first published 1 May 1988)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Vintage Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 375
  • Language English