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ISBN: 0375503684. Author: Irving, John. Publisher: Random House. Release Date: 1999-11-02. Condition: New.

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John Irving's memoir begins with his account of the distinguished career and medical writings of the novelist's grandfather Dr. Frederick C. Irving, a renowned obstetrician and gynecologist, and includes Mr. Irving's incisive history of abortion politics in the United States. But My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years John Irving spent adapting his novel The Cider House Rules for the screen--for four different directors. Mr. 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 slow progress at shepherding his screenplay of A Son of the Circus into production. Not least, and in addition to its qualities as a memoir--anecdotal, comic, affectionate, and candid--My Movie Business is an insightful essay on the essential differences between writing a novel and writing a screenplay. The photographs in My Movie Business were taken by Stephen Vaughan, the still photographer on the set of The Cider House Rules--a Miramax production directed by Lasse Hallström, with Michael Caine in the role of Dr. Larch. Concurrently with the November 1999 release of the film, Talk Miramax Books will publish John Irving's screenplay.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375503684
ISBN-13
9780375503689
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1013396

Product Key Features

Book Title
My Movie Business : a Memoir
Author
John Irving
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Film / Screenwriting, Literary
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
192 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
15.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3559.R8z468 1999
Reviews
"Writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath. . . . This short, amiable book is John Irving's personal history of seeing--or not seeing--his novels made into movies. . . . The book digresses charmingly and effortlessly into related subjects. There is a beguiling memoir of his grandfather, an eminent surgeon; a brilliant and passionate argument for the freedom of women to choose abortion . . . observations on the origins of his novels, and so on. . . . Irving remains cooly objective, and it is clear why: he is a novelist, first and foremost, and his attitude toward the movie business is informed by this security and certainty. . . . Irving has done us [writers] proud." --The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-015800
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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