Clint Eastwood : a biography

Book 1996

This volume is a biography of American actor and director Clint Eastwood (born 1930). Based on personal conversations with Eastwood, and interviews with friends, colleagues and family members, the author provides a candid and close-up portrait of Eastwood. Readers see the boy, Clint, regularly changing homes and schools as his family struggles to overcome the hardships of the Depression. We watch a restless West Coast adolescent obsessed with car...

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ISBN:

9780679429746
0679429743

Description:

viii, 557 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-539) and index
Filmography: pages 505-515

Contents:

Prologue : straight strands
Nothing for nothing
Kind of a magic life
Refined, ambitious and cooperative
Idiot of the plains
Breaking all the rules
"What would you rather be?
Lessness is bestiless
I'm an actor, you know
Shady habits, archaic responses
Authoritative normalcy
A labor of love
I'm who I want to be
My father's dream
The moth side
Fringed out
Lucky in the order
Natural eminence
Epilogue : the back nine
Filmography (1955-96)

LCCN:

96032836

Control Number:

61914

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