Author(s): William Boyd

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction

The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ...... John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the Twenties, then moves on to Hollywood ...... to ordeal by McCarthyism and eventual escape to Europe' Peter Kemp, Observer.

1987. First edition. A very good copy only marked by a previous owners bookplate on the front free endpaper and age tanning of the pages. The d/w is unclipped and near fine with only a very faint hint of sun fading of the spine.