Me and Orson Welles
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409079897
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Me and Orson Welles

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1 Jul 2010
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2 Feb 2009
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Now a major motion picture starring Claire Danes and Zac Efron.

SPECIAL TIE-IN EDITION INCLUDING EXCLUSIVE IMAGES FROM THE FILM.

Richard is a 17-year-old kid from New Jersey with the gift of the gab and an eye for the ladies. He's bored with school and dreams of making it big in the dazzling world of 1930s Manhattan.

This is the story of one week in Richard's life, when he miraculously gets a part in a history-making production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Mercury theatre, New York. It's the week falls in love, and falls out of love again; it's the week he changes his middle name - twice. It's also the week he meets the colossally talented, fearsomely charming, soon-to-be-superstar Orson Welles. After this week, Richard's life will never be the same again.
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409079897
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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About the author

Robert Kaplow

Robert Kaplow is a teacher and writer who for over fifteen years has written satirical songs and sketches for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, where he created 'Moe Moskowitz and the Punsters.' His acclaimed young adult novels include Alessandra in Love and Alex Icicle: A Romance in Ten Torrid Chapters. He is also the other author of two literary satires: The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun and Who's Killing the Great Writers of America?

Praise for Me and Orson Welles

A charming novel... should be rationed and savoured over many days

Independent

Bright, enthusiastic...entertaining

Publishers Weekly

Charming romantic fiction

Simon Callow, The Times

Inventive... In the span of 269 breezy pages, [Richard] falls in love, has his heart broken, sees his showbiz dreams crushed, and - beautifully, almost imperceptibly - becomes a man

Entertainment Weekly

One of the best depictions of male adolescent yearning ever to hit the page

Kirkus Reviews

Sleekly groomed, diverting, unpretentious...Orson Welles bestrides this narrative like a colossus...you feel the horror of a gifted artist metastasizing into that most twisted and unnatural of beings: a Star

Washington Post
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