In Search of Jerusalem by Michael Kustow

In Search of Jerusalem by Michael Kustow

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In Search of Jerusalem is a personal testament of everything the outspoken writer, film, television and theatre producer Michael Kustow stands for - in a year in which he also finds himself battling cancer. A defiant cultural activist facing mortal danger, he embark

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In Search of Jerusalem by Michael Kustow

"Ranging across the years, In Search of Jerusalem conjures up the spirited encounters of Michael Kustow's many-sided life: a tender evocation of his parents; portraits of actors, stage directors, painters, film-makers; vivid descriptions of post-war and modern Paris, Mumbai, Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank; the early days of Channel 4 television; and new insights a moment of challenge and change. A life shaken up is re-assembled in Kustow's cavalcade of survival and renewal."
"""One of the biographies of our generation - richly layered, funny, argumentative, moving and intellectually admirableA great achievement"" Melvyn Bragg "
"michael kustow is a writer and producer. His books include Peter Brook, a Biography (Bloomsbury 2005), theatre@risk (Methuen 2003) Tank, An Autobiographical Fiction (Cape 1975) ,The Half: Actors Preparing to Go on Stage - text for Simon Annand's photographs (Faber, 2008). He has been Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and of the National Theatre, and Arts Commissioning Editor for the first eight years of Channel Four television. He lives in North London."
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ISBN 13 9781840028720
ISBN 10 1840028726
Title In Search of Jerusalem
Author Michael Kustow
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2009-02-01
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.