Book : Walking With Ghosts - Byrne, Gabriel

-Titulo Original : Walking With Ghosts

-Fabricante :

Grove Press

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About the Author Gabriel Byrne was born in Dublin in 1950. Before becoming an actor, he joined a seminary with hopes of becoming a Catholic priest. Byrne is best known for his work in The Usual Suspects, Miller’s Crossing, and Into the West. He’s also done extensive work as a television actor and as a director and producer. He is based in New York. “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 OFaolain and Edna O’Brien.” -Colum McCannAs 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. Review Praise for Walking with Ghosts Dazzles with unflinching honesty, as it celebrates the exuberance of being alive to the world despite living through pain. [Byrnes] portrait of an artist as a young boy is steeped in nostalgia of the best sort, re-creating the pull of home . . . With this tender book--full of warm and often funny stories--Byrne shows us the depth of his true character. --Washington PostThe In Treatment star is a graceful stylist . . . finding elegant connections between childhood longings and adult mistakes. --Minneapolis Star Tribune A moody and melodic memoir--much like the great actor himself. --Oprah Daily, Most Anticipated Books of 2021 [Byrne] writes passionately about first love and hilariously about life as an actor. --Colm Toibin, Irish Times Walking with Ghosts is lavish with lyricism, but presents a pretty unvarnished version of its author . . . The book is also a conscious departure: stylistically ambitious, purposefully (and successfully) so. --The Guardian (UK) Remarkably intimate . . . A lyrical and unflinching interrogation of the self . . . The excavations of Byrnes early traumas . . . are stark and heartbreaking . . . That hes been able to alchemize these traumas into something so beautiful feels like deliverance, and reads like a gift. --Dan Sheehan, Air Mail Melancholic and poetic . . . Whats clear from the outset is that Byrne possesses that rare ability not just to identify meaningful moments but to recount them in an engaging way. --RTE Pulses with nostalgia and an honesty palpable from the opening pages . . . Byrne arrives at a truth greater than an honest and sensitive memoir; he verges on a profoundly touching articulation of our short time on earth, time that will make of each of us nothing more or less than a ghost.