Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Douglas, Kirk
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Details
- Title Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning
- Author Douglas, Kirk
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2007
- Date 2008
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0470376171
- ISBN 9780470376171 / 0470376171
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.64 x 5.66 x 0.7 in (21.95 x 14.38 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture actors and actresses - United, Douglas, Kirk
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the rear cover
----Publishers Weekly
"Douglas discusses dealing with death, his fans, his life as a Jew, his fellow actors, and the dangers of being a celebrity. He reminisces about his friends (all of them famous) and denounces anti-Semitism. . . . The actor's fans won't be disappointed."
----Booklist
"Easily [Douglas's] most compelling [book] . . . written in deftly lucid prose as a series of insights into the mind of a man reflecting on the past and facing the inevitable."
----The Times (of London)
"Self-deprecating, wise, and witty . . . a genuinely moving account of a great figure's later years."
----Empire
He has been one of the brightest stars in Hollywood, a hard-charging actor whose intensity on the screen has been mirrored in his personal life. In Let's Face It, Douglas contemplates what life is all about, writing about current events and looking back at his childhood and his storied, glamorous, and colorful life and career in Hollywood. He writes frankly for the first time about the tragic death of his son Eric from a drug overdose and tells what it was like to recover from several near-death episodes, including a helicopter crash, a stroke, and a cardiac event. He also offers strong opinions on everything from racism and Hurricane Katrina to the war in Iraq and the situation in Israel.
A must-read for every Kirk Douglas fan, this engrossing memoir provides an indelible self-portrait of a great star while sharing the wit and wisdom accumulated over a lifetime.