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Jack's lifePatrick McGilligan

Jack's life

Patrick McGilligan
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8 editions · 2 languages
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"No male American film star of the post-Brando era - not Pacino, not De Niro, not Hoffman - has demonstrated the talent, the charisma, the larger-than-life audacity, and the string of screen triumphs of Jack Nicholson. In Jack's Life, Patrick McGilligan, one of our finest film biographers, captures Nicholson's private, public, and cinematic life in all its complexity and contradictions - a portrait of the film icon as man and artist and hedonist and closet intellectual. It is as deep and intimate a biography of an American actor as we've had in many years, certain to be one of the most…

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8 editions · 2 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2015
    W. W. Norton & Company · 608 pages · 9780393350968
  • Other · English · 2015
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 608 pages · 9780393350975
  • Other · English · 1996
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 480 pages · 9780393248418
  • Other · English · 1995
    HarperCollins · 533 pages · 9780006384335
  • Other · English · 1995
    W. W. Norton & Company · 512 pages · 9780393313789
  • Other · English · 1994
    Norton · 478 pages · 9780393034820
BiographyMotion picture actors and actressesNicholson, jack, 1937-Actors, united statesNew York Times reviewedMotion pictures, biography