The Ragmans Son

Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671637187
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ragman's Son written by Kirk Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, the son of an illiterate immigrant Russian-Jewish ragpicker and junkman, Kirk Douglas makes clear in this powerful, angry, and passionate book the ways in which his difficult childhood dominated his life as an actor, father, and man. 16 pages of photographs.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307762475
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suttree written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060014040
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Stroke of Luck written by Kirk Douglas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My stroke taught me so much, and for all that it stole, it gave me even more. In the process of healing, my life has changed for the better. Now I want to share what I have learned. In this vivid and very personal reflection upon his extraordinary life as an actor, author, and legend in his own time, Kirk Douglas offers a candid and heartfelt memoir of where it all went right in his life -- even after suffering a debilitating stroke. Revealing not only the incredible physical and emotional toll of his stroke but how it has changed his life for the better, Douglas shares the lessons that saved him and helped him to heal. Alongside his heartfelt advice and insight, he also recalls warm memories of some of the most famous figures of our time -- including Burt Lancaster, Michael J. Fox, and Gary Cooper -- as well as others who have soared to greatness in the face of adversity. Charming, soulful, and filled with personal photographs, My Stroke of Luck is an intimate look at the real person behind the fabulous talent -- and at a life lived to its very fullest.

Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099579380
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dance with the Devil written by Kirk Douglas and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood can be a tough town. But it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. Although the movies he directs are more hot commerce than great art, he's wealthy and successful. But Danny Dennison has been living a lie. His true identity is buried half way around the world in the ruins of a Nazi concentration camp. Danny believes his secret to be safe - until he meets Luba, a young, sensuous call girl, whose mesmerising sexuality begins to shatter his well-guarded facade.

Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780762462179
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kirk and Anne written by Kirk Douglas and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film legend Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens, his wife of nearly sixty-three years, look back on a lifetime filled with drama both on and off the screen. Sharing priceless correspondence with each other as well as the celebrities and world leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne is a candid portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls of a Hollywood life lived in the public eye. Compiled from Anne's private archive of letters and photographs, this is an intimate glimpse into the Douglases' courtship and marriage set against the backdrop of Kirk's screen triumphs, including The Vikings, Lust For Life, Paths of Glory, and Spartacus. The letters themselves, as well as Kirk and Anne's vivid descriptions of their experiences, reveal remarkable insight and anecdotes about the legendary figures they knew so well, including Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, the Kennedys, and the Reagans. Filled with photos from film sets, private moments, and public events, Kirk and Anne details the adventurous, oftentimes comic, and poignant reality behind the glamour of a Hollywood life-as only a couple of sixty-two years (and counting) could tell it.

Author : Walter Wangerin
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060526149
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ragman - reissue written by Walter Wangerin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with eleven new stories and meditations, this Gold Medallion–winning classic interweaves vivid stories, deep meditations, and provocative allegories that together explore the power and meaning of love within an often inhumane urban landscape. The opening chapter, "Ragman," remains one of Walter Wangerin Jr.'s most beloved works and leads the reader to thirty–three other writings, all bearing the author's trademark poignancy and lyricism. Ranging from gentle reflections to heart–rending invocations, these selections are powerful, thought–provoking explorations of the meaning of faith, the person of Christ, and the communion of believers. Again and again, Wangerin's cries of faith touch our deepest pains with rays of joyful healing.

Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453239375
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Spartacus! written by Kirk Douglas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lively” memoir by the Hollywood legend about the making of Spartacus, with a foreword by George Clooney (Los Angeles Times). One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction and memoir. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his enduring epic Spartacus, Douglas reveals the riveting drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood’s moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus. Trumbo was one of the “Unfriendly Ten,” men who had gone to prison rather than testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about their political affiliations. Douglas’s source material was already a hot property, as the novel Spartacus was written by Howard Fast while he was in jail for defying HUAC. With the financial future of his young family at stake, Douglas plunged into a tumultuous production both on- and off-screen. As both producer and star of the film, he faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick, struggles with a leading lady, and negotiations with giant personalities, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Lew Wasserman. Writing from his heart and from his own meticulously researched archives, Kirk Douglas, at ninety-five, looks back at his audacious decisions. He made the most expensive film of its era—but more importantly, his moral courage in giving public credit to Trumbo effectively ended the notorious Hollywood blacklist. A master storyteller, Douglas paints a vivid and often humorous portrait in I Am Spartacus! The book is enhanced by newly discovered period photography of the stars and filmmakers both on and off the set.

Author : Walter Wangerin
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 : 9780060692292
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ragman written by Walter Wangerin and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a treasure trove of 26 eloquent and deeply moving stories by the American Book Award-winning author of The Book of the Dun Cow and The Book of Sorrows. "These are stories of human lives, of grit, of determination, of righteousness and self-righteousness, of peace, joy and love".--Provident Book Finder.

Author : John W. Jordan
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5880233553
Total Pages : 1750 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial families of Philadelphia written by John W. Jordan and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1911 with total page 1750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Preiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036577
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre written by Richard Preiss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre.