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MY BOOK WORLD
Newman, Paul. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir. Based on interviews and oral histories conducted by Stewart Stern. Compiled by David Rosenthal. With a foreword by Melissa Newman and an afterword by Clea Newman Soderlund. New York: Knopf, 2022.
I'm a big fan of this sensational actor, but the book leaves a lot to be desired. The man tells you over and over again that he is separated from his own feelings, and that emotional distance is evident in his very own words. He hardly says anything about his wife, actor Joanne Woodward, and, even though he mentions going through therapy (finally), he doesn’t reveal much about the process or how it might transform his life from curmudgeon to kind philanthropist. The compilers cover only a fraction of his films. All in all, disappointing.
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I'm a big fan of this sensational actor, but the book leaves a lot to be desired. The man tells you over and over again that he is separated from his own feelings, and that emotional distance is evident in his very own words. He hardly says anything about his wife, actor Joanne Woodward, and, even though he mentions going through therapy (finally), he doesn’t reveal much about the process or how it might transform his life from curmudgeon to kind philanthropist. The compilers cover only a fraction of his films. All in all, disappointing.
Up Next:
TUES: A Writer's Wit | Jimmy Carter (100th birthday)
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Maria Ressa
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Thomas Wolfe
FRI: My Book World | Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
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