This is not my memoir /
"This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, T...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities." -- Amazon.com. "The kaleidoscopic autobiography of director, actor, and artist André Gregory -- including stories from his birth in Nazi-Europe through his career in experimental theater and the creation of the cult classic film My Dinner with André"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374298548 0374298548 |