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Book SynopsisThe creator of Deadwood and NYPD Blue reflects on his tumultuous life, driven by a nearly insatiable creative energy and a matching penchant for self-destruction.
Trade ReviewThought-provoking reflections on existence * Independent *
A book full of riches [..] to fuel the reader’s creativity, full of insight into the way real art can be made, even in the most trying circumstances * New Statesman *
A brilliant, emotional memoir and hymn to television screenwriting * Mail on Sunday *
Life’s Work is one of the best books about television I’ve read. It’s funny, discursive, literate, druggy, self-absorbed, fidgety, replete with intense perceptions… You finish feeling you’ve really met someone.
Milch was his own best creation -- Dwight Garner * The New York Times *
The most
gorgeously humane voice I've encountered in a work of nonfiction in a long while. I can think of few recent books that have pulsed with life this transparently, this powerfully. * Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm *
Like the best memoirs,
Life's Work is
intimate, exquisitely observed, and intense. But unlike most - and what sets it apart - is the heartbreak it embodies, the finality it signals. This is David Milch's farewell, and it will rock you * Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief *
A
wise, sly, hilarious, and poignant account of a life's work in hard drugs and hard television. * Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus *
