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Me and Orson Welles

Robert Kaplow

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English
Vintage
02 February 2009
An enchanting coming-of-age novel set in 1930s Manhattan and its film industry - now also a major motion picture.

Richard is a 17-year-old kid from New Jersey with the gift of the gab and an eye for the ladies. He's bored with school and dreams of making it big in the dazzling world of 1930s Manhattan. Miraculously, he bumps into Orson Welles outside the yet-to-open Mercury Theatre a week before Welles' history-making production of Julius Caesar, and is hired on the spot for a walk-on part.

Suddenly Richard finds himself a heady world of high-stakes theatre and highly-strung celebrities, swapping bawdy jokes with Joe 'the Fertilizer' Cotten, sweet-talking the gorgeous production assistant Sonja, attempting to master the ukulele, staying up all night and lying to his mother.

But this is the world of the colossally talented, fearsomely charming, ruthless and ambitious Orson Welles, and by the end of the week, Richard must decide if this is really the world where he wants to live.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   200g
ISBN:   9780099531807
ISBN 10:   0099531801
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Me and Orson Welles

Me and Orson Welles is a charming novel. Its vivid optimism and deep interest in the fledgling stages of love and fame captivate and cheer. So enjoyable and reviving a book should be rationed and savoured over many days. -- Susie Boyt Independent Sleekly groomed, diverting, unpretentious...Orson Welles bestrides this narrative like a colossus...you feel the horror of a gifted artist metastasizing into that most twisted and unnatural of beings: a Star Washington Post One of the best depictions of male adolescent yearning ever to hit the page Kirkus Reviews Inventive...in the span of 269 breezy pages, [Richard] falls in love, has his heart broken, sees his showbiz dreams crushed, and--beautifully, almost imperceptibly--becomes a man Entertainment Weekly Bright, enthusiastic...entertaining Publishers Weekly


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