Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out.
Superb, insightful short life.. Deft and moving -- Bee Wilson * The Guardian *
Irresistible -- Louise Jury * The Independent *
An elegant and hugely enjoyable read -- Alexander Larman * Sunday Express *
[A] nutritious, compact and superb critical biography -- Roger Lewis * Daily Mail *
Shelves of serious biographies have been written on Alfred Hitchcock, but perhaps none as pleasurable as Peter Ackroyd’s -- Kate Muir * The Times *
Irresistible -- Louise Jury * The Independent *
An elegant and hugely enjoyable read -- Alexander Larman * Sunday Express *
[A] nutritious, compact and superb critical biography -- Roger Lewis * Daily Mail *
Shelves of serious biographies have been written on Alfred Hitchcock, but perhaps none as pleasurable as Peter Ackroyd’s -- Kate Muir * The Times *
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099287667 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099287668 |
| Title | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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