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Life's Work - A Memoir of Storytelling and Self-Destruction: David Milch Life's Work - A Memoir of Storytelling and Self-Destruction
David Milch
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Illuminating . . . there is never a dull moment' The Times 'Marvellous . . . full of riches' New Statesman David Milch is the critically acclaimed writer of the iconic TV series Deadwood and NYPD Blue. As he descends into a dementia from which there's no return, Life's Work is his urgent account of his increasingly strange present and his often painful past. 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 School only to be expelled for shooting out streetlights. He paused his studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop to manufacture acid. And yet he went on to create and write some of the most lauded television series of all time, started a family and pursued sobriety – only to lose his fortune betting on the horses, just as his drug-addicted surgeon 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 to those we love, and how you then keep living. A compelling masterclass on Milch's unique creative process, this is a distinctive, revelatory memoir from one of the great American writers, and quite possibly his final dispatch to us all. _____ 'Funny, discursive, literate, druggy, self-absorbed . . . You finish feeling you've really met someone' The New York Times 'A searing, brutally honest memoir' The Independent

Life's Work (Paperback): David Milch Life's Work (Paperback)
David Milch
R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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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