Description
| Product ID: | 9781529027457 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Walking With Ghosts |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir |
| Authors: | Author: Gabriel Byrne |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Individual actors and performers, Theatre: individual actors & directors, Individual actors and performers, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, Individual actors & performers, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Memoirs, Ireland |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A highly anticipated memoir by Gabriel Byrne, award-winning actor. Walking with Ghosts is an exquisite portrait of an Irish childhood and a remarkable journey to Hollywood and Broadway success. <p><b>'Destined to be a classic' <i>Sunday Independent</i></b><br><b>'Gabriel Byrne tells his story brilliantly' - Edna O'Brien<br></b><b>'Dazzles with unflinching honesty' <i>Washington Post</i></b><br><b>'An absolutely marvellous book' - Colm Tóibín<br></b><br>Born to working-class parents and the eldest of six children, Gabriel Byrne harboured a childhood desire to become a priest. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled from an English seminary and he quickly returned to his native Dublin. There he took odd jobs as a messenger boy and a factory labourer to get by. In his spare time he visited the cinema, where he could be alone and yet part of a crowd. It was here that he could begin to imagine a life beyond the grey world of ’60s Ireland.<br><br>It was a friend who suggested Byrne join an amateur drama group, a decision that would change his life forever and launch him on an extraordinary forty-year career in film and theatre. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and on Broadway, often through the lens of addiction. Hilarious and heartbreaking <i>Walking With Ghosts </i>is a lyrical homage to the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-30 |