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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 enjoyable entertainment' Sunday Times

'Simply the best realistic storyteller of his generation' Independent

The New Confessions: A rich exploration into one man’s life from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart

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'Brilliant. A Citizen Kane of a novel' Daily Telegraph__________________________________Meet John James Todd:Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element'Born in 1899,... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 03/06/2010
    ISBN13: 9780141046914, 978-0141046914
    ISBN10: 0141046910

    Number of Pages: 592

    Fiction , Historical Fiction

    Description

    '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 enjoyable entertainment' Sunday Times

    'Simply the best realistic storyteller of his generation' Independent

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