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''Brilliant. A Citizen Kane of a novel'' Daily Telegraph
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Meet John James Todd:
Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and ''subversive element''

Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties and beyond.

Suffering imprisonment, shooting, marriage, fatherhood, divorce and McCarthyism, Todd is a hostage to good fortune, ill-judgement, bad luck, the vast sweep of history and the cruel, cruel hand of fate . . .

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''A magnificent feat of storytelling and panoramic reconstruction'' Observer

''Paced and plotted with sinewy, unfailing skill . . . Boyd has given us a work of rich, ripe and immensely enj

The New Confessions

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 3 June 2010
      ISBN-13 9780141046914
      978-0141046914
      ISBN-10 0141046910
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Brilliant. A Citizen Kane of a novel'' Daily Telegraph
      __________________________________

      Meet John James Todd:
      Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and ''subversive element''

      Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties and beyond.

      Suffering imprisonment, shooting, marriage, fatherhood, divorce and McCarthyism, Todd is a hostage to good fortune, ill-judgement, bad luck, the vast sweep of history and the cruel, cruel hand of fate . . .

      __________________________________

      ''A magnificent feat of storytelling and panoramic reconstruction''       Observer

      ''Paced and plotted with sinewy, unfailing skill . . . Boyd has given us a work of rich, ripe and immensely enj

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