God of Speed
From the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of LionI will fly at last. I will unfold my wings. I will unpack my head. I will step back outside. One day I may even make love again. But one thing at a time. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.Film mogul, aviator, addict, inventor, visionary, recluse, serial womanizer, political meddler: Howard Hughes was one of the strangest and most significant figures of the twentieth century. His obsessive-compulsive disorder would end up crippling and isolating him; in the end he self-medicated his way into oblivion. It's a summer night in 1973, and holed up in his hotel penthouse in London, Hughes can't sleep. Tomo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-940207-27-8
- EAN: 9781940207278
- Produktnummer: 19692658
- Verlag: Rare Bird Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 275 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.0 cm 383 g
- Gewicht: 383
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Luke Davies is the Oscar-nominated screen writer of Lion and the author of two novels, Isabelle the Navigator and the cult bestseller Candy, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and has been published in Britain and the United States and translated into German, Spanish, Hebrew, French, and Greek. A film version starring Heath Ledger was released in 2006 and won Davies Best Adapted Screenplay at the AFI Awards.Davies was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Poetry in 2004. He has published seven books of poetry, including Running With Light which was the winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and Totem, which won the John Bray Poetry Prize and The Age Book of The Year Award. Interferon Psalms won the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. Davies lives in Los Angeles.
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