Dimensions
167 x 240 x 38mm
An unauthorised biography undertaking an independent investigation of Woody Allen's life, film maker, multi-talented actor, writer, stand-up comedian, jazz musician and director. The author hides nothing, not least the astonishing saga behind his marriage to a woman young enough to be his grand-daughter - the adopted daughter of his long-time lover, Mia Farrow.
Go back to Allen's roots and his early life for clues to the origins of his genius. In upwardly mobile, middle class Brooklyn where he grew up, he haunted cinemas and dreamed of adulation and honour. They came, although perhaps not as he intended. As a comic, he would have preferred to write, direct and play Hamlet. This biography reveals an outstanding but flawed talent, whose professional work, like that of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton before him, has enhanced our lives, but whose own life has led to public excoriation.
