In death Orson Welles remains a legendary, outsized, and ambiguous figure. Peter Conrad's study is a critical biography of Welles, viewing the man through the optic of his sprawling and yet singular body of work. This is not a debunking of the well-aired Welles-as-genius myth so much as an attempt to explain the sources of his polymorphous gifts, through an expert examination of the many personae he adopted in a life lived large.
- ISBN10 057121164X
- ISBN13 9780571211647
- Publish Date 1 January 2005 (first published 16 September 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English