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050	0	0	_aPR6052.O9192 _bN4 1988
082	1		_aFIC BOY _2
100	1		_aBoyd, William _d(, 1952-)
245	1	4	_aThe new confessions _c/ William Boyd
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Morrow _c, 2000, c1988
300			_a476 p. _c; 21 cm.
520			_aWilliam Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and a hundred percent William Boyd. From his birth in 1899, Todd was doomed. Emerging from his angst-filled childhood, he rushes into the throes of the twentieth century on the Western Front during the Great War, and quickly changes his role on the battlefield from cannon fodder to cameraman. When he becomes a prisoner of war, he discovers Rousseau's Confessions, and dedicates his life to bringing the memoir to the silver screen. Plagued by bad luck and blind ambition, Todd becomes a celebrated London upstart, a Weimar luminary, and finally a disgruntled director of cowboy movies and the eleventh member of the Hollywood Ten.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aMotion picture producers and directors _v--Fiction
651		4	_aHollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) _v--Fiction
655		4	_aHumorous stories _x-English
942			_cMO
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