Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1996. 463 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front hinge slightly sprung. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into 'a sustaining tragedy' -- his thing, his song. In Rosebud, Thomson follows the wild arc of Welles's career, from the War of the Worlds broadcast to the triumph of Citizen Kane, the mixed triumph of The Magnificent Ambersons, and the strange and troubling movies that followed. Here, too, is the unfolding of the Welles persona - the grand gestures, the womanizing, the high living, the betrayals. / London-born David Thomson graduated from Dulwich College and the London School of Film Technique. He has taught film studies at Dartmouth College, is on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival, and is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe, Film Comment, Los Angeles, and The New Republic. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.