{"product_id":"to-the-end-of-the-world-9780349139784","title":"To the End of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose'' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEverett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes his attention'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRupert Everett tells the story of how he set out to make a film of Oscar Wilde''s last days, and how that ten-year quest almost destroyed him. (And everyone else.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Travelling across Europe for the film, he weaves in extraordinary tales from his past, remembering wild times, freak encounters and lost friends. There are celebrities, of course. But we also meet glamorous but doomed Aunt Peta, who introduces Rupert (aged three) to the joys of make-up. In ''90s Paris, his great friend Lychee burns bright, and is gone. While in ''70s London, a ''weirdly tall, beyond size zero'' teenage Rupert is expelled from the Central School of Speech and Drama. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unflinchingly honest and hugely entertaining, \u003ci\u003eTo the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique insight into the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rude and uproarious new memoir\u003c\/b\u003e about the vicissitudes of fame and his attempts to make a film about the last days of Oscar Wilde * The Times Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnother actor who can really write is Rupert Everett\u003c\/b\u003e. His latest memoir, \u003ci\u003eTo the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, about making his Oscar Wilde film, is reliably hilarious - even if the joke is now always at his expense: \"like a toothless old circus dog, I yap yes to everything\", he writes, as he hoovers up \"a couple of dry martinis to conjure up a bit of sloshed sparkle - the dregs of my star quality\" * Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 2020 *\u003cbr\u003eBoth a caustic reflection on the iniquities of show business and an account of his decade-long efforts to bring Oscar Wilde's \u003ci\u003eThe Happy Prince\u003c\/i\u003e to the screen. \u003cb\u003eThe writing is as sparkling as the anecdotes are riotous\u003c\/b\u003e: he stands up Joan Collins for dinner and throws up on Colin Firth * Guardian Books of the Year 2020 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe joy of Everett as a writer has always been his pitilessly clear-eyed perspective, especially of himself\u003c\/b\u003e...Everett has become one of the most delightful writers about modern fame...\u003cb\u003eHe has a writing style as seductive as his youthful beauty\u003c\/b\u003e...\u003cb\u003eevery sentence Everett writes rings with his personality, and it's a personality that has always been irresistible\u003c\/b\u003e * Hadley Freeman, Guardian Book of the Day *\u003cbr\u003eEverett is wonderfully sharp, and alive to all the comical absurdities of the movie business...\u003cb\u003ehe turns out to be a masterly travel writer, with the magical ability to make a city or a building or a group of people burst into life in a few words\u003c\/b\u003e...Like Everett's other books, \u003ci\u003eTo The End Of The World\u003c\/i\u003e is also \u003cb\u003every funny and revealing about the shallow nature of stardom\u003c\/b\u003e * Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eThis is tremendous * Rev. Richard Coles *\u003cbr\u003eLike its preceding volumes, R\u003ci\u003eed Carpets and Other Banana Skins \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVanished Years\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eit quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose\u003c\/b\u003e...We should really start describing him as a writer who acts, rather than the other way round...\u003cb\u003eHe's brilliantly caustic on Hollywood and the march of time\u003c\/b\u003e....\"Why hadn't I realised I could write?\" he asks of his younger self. The answer, probably, is simple. He needed those years of excess, hissy fits and humiliations to fuel his imagination * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eIn a sharp, scabrous account of his lifelong love of Oscar, the actor again proves himself a masterly writer...it is just about everything you could want, at least in a memoir by an actor. \u003cb\u003eWe know, by now, that Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes his attention\u003c\/b\u003e...However wasteful and capricious his first profession, we know that he is perfectly safe. The blank page will henceforth always be his. \u003cb\u003eHe is a writer to his (aching) bones\u003c\/b\u003e * Rachel Cooke, Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHis resilient energy, sharp-eyed intelligence and keen sense of the ridiculous, as well as his capacity for short-term enjoyment of life's sensual pleasures, infuse his writing with a warm glow\u003c\/b\u003e...the sheer force of his personality is irresistible and there isn't a dull moment...anyone reading this shrewd and entertaining book is going to lend him an ear * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThis impeccably stylish and hilariously bitchy collection of anecdotes...\u003cb\u003eEverett's story of a magnificently barmy obsession that leads him into some of the loveliest hotels in Europe\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eIt's such a beautiful book...\u003cb\u003eIt's so beautifully written and it's just gorgeous\u003c\/b\u003e * Graham Norton, the Graham Norton Show *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery page of this third volume of his memoirs sparkles.\u003c\/b\u003e He writes with ready wit, fetching self-deprecation and a turn of phrase that brings places and people vividly to life. He can capture a character in a sentence or convey the fading grandeur of a hotel and city in a few lines...\u003cb\u003eYou hope there are more adventures to come and that Everett continues to chronicle them with the wit and panache that he displays here\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA charming and witty account of a largely horrible experience\u003c\/b\u003e, interspersed with lovely recollections of a more debauched past * Philip Hensher, Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eAn amazing man. \u003cb\u003eAnd such a good writer\u003c\/b\u003e...This book is amazing * Chris Evans, The Chris Evans Breakfast Show *\u003cbr\u003eSuch a brilliant writer * Janet Street-Porter, Loose Women *\u003cbr\u003eWitty and well observed, \u003cb\u003eit's a must-read\u003c\/b\u003e * Grazia *\u003cbr\u003eAs Everett ricochets from Paris to Naples, Berlin to Venice in search of funding and locations, he captures the snakes-and-ladders world of international film finance. It takes a saintly forbearance to survive all the setbacks in the film's making, along with the stalwart support of loyal friends from Colin Firth to Emily Watson * Mirror *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is impossible to overstate just how brilliant this book is\u003c\/b\u003e: fearless, soulful and so articulate that ever single page mesmerises....If Oscar was around today, this is the book that he'd be reading. * Attitude *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is quite as brilliant as its two predecessors. It is \u003cb\u003esharp, camp, fearless, touching and very, very funny\u003c\/b\u003e * The Oldie *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47846231966039,"sku":"9780349139784","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349139784_bf0b9547-52dc-43c4-bcaa-cfebecae3d01.jpg?v=1710521933","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-the-end-of-the-world-9780349139784","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}