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The New Confessions
The New Confessions
Author: William Boyd
In this extraordinary novel, William 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,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140106992
ISBN-10: 0140106995
Publication Date: 6/2/1989
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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John James Todd is vain and foolish, rakish and charming, odd and exasperating. He is a man of many talents, and many failings. Born in 1899, Todd wends his picaresque way thorugh the twentieth century. He survives the trenches of WWI, becomes a pioneer filmaker in Weimer Berlin, pursues a see-sawing career on movie sets in London and Hollywood, and works on his masterpiece-a six hour epic on the life of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Along the way Todd loves and loses several women, fathers and forgets 4 children, earns and dissapates several fortunes. Ultimately forced in to exile by Hollywood's McCarthy madness, Todd sets down to write his autobiography. The result is The New Confessions, the chaotic tale of a self-proclaimed genius.


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