Donald Spoto
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[This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]
[Read by Jeff Riggenbach]
This is the definitive
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life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock's long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of the director's obsessions with blondes, food, murder, and idealized love--and he traces the incomparable, bizarre genius from Hitchcock's English childhood through the golden years of his career in America as one of the greatest directors in the history of filmmaking.Based on interviews with his writers, actors, and longtime associates, and on exhaustive research, The Dark Side of Genius is the definite biography of Alfred Hitchcock.
Review
''Absolutely compulsory reading.'' --New York Times Book Review
''An exemplary piece of cinema scholarship.'' --Washington Post
''A real page-turner, and as complete a picture as we are likely to get.'' --Variety
''The finest book about a filmmaker yet. Sensational in its revelations; at the same time, a biography of unassailable integrity. I could not put it down.'' --Gregory Peck
About the Author
DONALD SPOTO is the author of more than fifteen books that have been translated into some twenty languages, including highly praised biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, and James Dean. He lives in Los Angeles.
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