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Life's Work
A Memoir of Storytelling and Self-Destruction
Taschenbuch von David Milch
Sprache: Englisch

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I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch.

So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also contain moments of grace.

Betting on race horses and stealing booze at eight years old, mentored by Robert Penn Warren and excoriated by Richard Yates at twenty-one, Milch never did anything by half. He got into Yale Law only to be expelled for shooting out streetlights with a shotgun. He paused his studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop to manufacture acid in Cuernavaca. He created and wrote some of the most lauded television series of all time, made a family and pursued sobriety, and then lost his fortune betting horses just as his father had taught him.

Like Milch's best screenwriting, Life's Work explores how chance encounters, self-deception, and luck shape the people we become, and wrestles with what it means to have felt and caused pain, even and especially with those we love, and how you keep living. It is both a masterclass on Milch's unique creative process, and a distinctive, revelatory memoir from one of the great American writers, in what may be his final dispatch to us all.
I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch.

So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every achievement is accompanied by an act of self-immolation, but the deepest sadnesses also contain moments of grace.

Betting on race horses and stealing booze at eight years old, mentored by Robert Penn Warren and excoriated by Richard Yates at twenty-one, Milch never did anything by half. He got into Yale Law only to be expelled for shooting out streetlights with a shotgun. He paused his studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop to manufacture acid in Cuernavaca. He created and wrote some of the most lauded television series of all time, made a family and pursued sobriety, and then lost his fortune betting horses just as his father had taught him.

Like Milch's best screenwriting, Life's Work explores how chance encounters, self-deception, and luck shape the people we become, and wrestles with what it means to have felt and caused pain, even and especially with those we love, and how you keep living. It is both a masterclass on Milch's unique creative process, and a distinctive, revelatory memoir from one of the great American writers, in what may be his final dispatch to us all.
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Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781035005635
ISBN-10: 1035005638
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 98196
Ausstattung / Beilage: Trade Paperback
Autor: Milch, David
Auflage: Air Iri OME
Hersteller: Picador
Macmillan Publishers International
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Zeitfracht Medien GmbH, Ferdinand-Jühlke-Straße 7, D-99095 Erfurt, produktsicherheit@zeitfracht.de
Maße: 23 x 153 x 234 mm
Von/Mit: David Milch
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,376 kg
Artikel-ID: 121463325
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781035005635
ISBN-10: 1035005638
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 98196
Ausstattung / Beilage: Trade Paperback
Autor: Milch, David
Auflage: Air Iri OME
Hersteller: Picador
Macmillan Publishers International
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Zeitfracht Medien GmbH, Ferdinand-Jühlke-Straße 7, D-99095 Erfurt, produktsicherheit@zeitfracht.de
Maße: 23 x 153 x 234 mm
Von/Mit: David Milch
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,376 kg
Artikel-ID: 121463325
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