This montage weaves together memories from Bergman’s childhood and adulthood with all their subtle parallels. Film-like, dream-like and beautifully crafted, this self-portrait is startlingly honest about his own dishonesty, his successes and failures both personal and artistic.
A Magic Lantern
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£13.50
Edition:Paperback978022604382106/06/2008From a Bookshelf nearby
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In this inspired recreation of her parents' hopes and lives, MW has created a vivid memoir of post-war childhood and adventure in Cairo, Italy and London.
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
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Those who read Clare's Something of His Art, about J S Bach, or The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal (or others) will know that Clare is a writer of exquisite sensibility and nuance. He i... read more
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A marvellous debut from a young man of complex literary and musical parentage: birds of a feather, sins of the father, on and off the rails (the cenotaph too, memorably) - and a magpie calle... read more
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Motherwell: A Girlhood
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