Biography
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Michael Ondaatje’s “Coming Through Slaughter” is a real jigsaw puzzle of a book, the narrative split into fragmented passages, different third and first person voices, a blend of fiction and fact. Often you are never really sure exactly where the boundaries lay between the two. Look-up Buddy Bolden on the internet and you will find…
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If you’re ‘a name’ – a politician, a sports person, an actor or media personality – you might do so in order to entertain, set the record straight, earn money. And you do so because you know people will be interested. But what about everyday folk with their ‘normal’ lives – though every life is…
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It’s been a while since I last read an autobiography, but as a keen film fan I was drawn to Paul Newman’s posthumously published “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man”. The book is curated rather than written, with the vast majority of its material recorded in interviews between 1986 and 1991. Newman had always…