My movie business / John Irving ; photographs by Stephen Vaughan
by Irving, John (1942-). Vaughan, Stephen
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0747546312
- ISBN 13
- 9780747546313
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London : Bloomsbury, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 144 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Summary; John Irving's memoir describes the author's involvement (and lack thereof) in five of the films that have (and have not) been made from his nine novels. It focuses primarily on the 13 years Irving spent writing and rewriting his screenplay of ""The Cider House Rules"", for four different directors. A Miramax production, the film was finally shot in the fall of 1998; directed by the Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom, with Michael Caine in the role of Dr Larch, it is released in November 1999. Irving also writes about the failed effort to make his first novel ""Setting Free the Bears"", into a movie; about two of the films that were made from his novels (but not from his screenplays), ""The World According to Garp"" and ""The Hotel New Hampshire""; about his ongoing struggle to shepherd his screeplay of ""A Son of the Circus"" into production. In addition to its qualities as a memoir, this book is an insightful essay on the essential differences between writing a novel and writing a screenplay. Subjects; Irving, John (1942-) Cider House Rules. Irving, John (1942-) Biography. Irving, John (1942-) Motion picture plays. Cider house rules (Motion picture). Motion picture authorship. Fiction authorship. Motion pictures Production and direction. Films, cinema ; Biography & autobiography: film, television, music, theatre ; Novels, other prose & writers. Literary studies: from (c 1900 -). American English. Performing Arts / Film & Video / General. Bigoraphy & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts. Literary Criticism / General. Literary Criticism / European / General. Motion picture authorship ; Fiction authorship ; Motion pictures ; Production and direction. Irving, John. Genre; Autobiography.
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- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- My movie business / John Irving ; photographs by Stephen Vaughan
- Author
- Irving, John (1942-). Vaughan, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0747546312
- ISBN 13
- 9780747546313
- Publisher
- London : Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
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