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Walking with Ghosts (Hardcover)
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Walking with Ghosts (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R600
Discovery Miles 6 000
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A highly anticipated memoir by Gabriel Byrne, the award-winning
star of over 80 films, Walking with Ghosts is an exquisite portrait
of an Irish childhood and a remarkable journey to Hollywood and
Broadway success. "Make no mistake about it: Walking with Ghosts is
a masterpiece. A book that will wring out our tired hearts. It is
by turns poetic, moving, and very funny. You will find it on the
shelf alongside other great Irish memoirs including those by Frank
McCourt, Nuala O'Faolain and Edna O'Brien." --Colum McCann As a
young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne
sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills
near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to
working-class parents and the eldest of six children, he harbored a
childhood desire to become a priest. When he was eleven years old,
Byrne found himself crossing the Irish Sea to join a seminary in
England. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled and he quickly
returned to his native city. There he took odd jobs as a messenger
boy and a factory laborer to get by. In his spare time, he visited
the cinema where he could be alone and yet part of a crowd. It was
here that he could begin to imagine a life beyond the grey world of
60s Ireland. He reveled in the theatre and poetry of Dublin's
streets, populated by characters as eccentric and remarkable as any
in fiction, those who spin a yarn with acuity and wit. It was a
friend who suggested Byrne join an amateur drama group, a decision
that would change his life forever and launch him on an
extraordinary forty-year career in film and theatre. Moving between
sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland
and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and Broadway, Byrne also
courageously recounts his battle with addiction and the ambivalence
of fame. Walking with Ghosts is by turns hilarious and
heartbreaking as well as a lyrical homage to the people and
landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies.
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