Choking on Marlon Brando: A Memoir
by Quirke, Antonia
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/none
- ISBN 10
- 1590200543
- ISBN 13
- 9781590200544
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Overlook Press, 2007 9781590200544. Softcover. First edition. First Printing. VG/Near Fine.. Complete numberline. 310 pages. No annotations or inscriptions. No creases on spine or covers. Choking on Marlon Brando is the story of how a young female film critic's love-life is affected and nearly ruined by her obsession with male movie stars. As her increasingly hapless hunt for the right man unfolds and her television and newspaper career unravels, our heroine finally begins to understand that difficult truth: that life is not like the movies. Entwined within the narrative of her real-life love affairs is a kaleidoscope of digressions on great screen actors. Her early obsession with Brando, her later dream-life with Gerard Depardieu, a personal ad seeking out Tom Cruise, a disastrous climactic encounter with Jeff Bridges. It's a helter-skelter ride through love and the movies which reads like a screwball comedy. But our heroine is no screwball; she seems to know everything about movies and the human heart, and painfully little about anything else. Written in a fresh and utterly engaging voice, Choking on Marlon Brando is moving and hilarious, a bittersweet and endearing story of a woman who can't draw the line between her love life and the art she loves. .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2005
- Title
- Choking on Marlon Brando: A Memoir
- Author
- Quirke, Antonia
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1590200543
- ISBN 13
- 9781590200544
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Marlon Brando Films Movies Cinema Television Male Stars Depardieu Journalism QSE
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