Managing Expectations (eBook)

AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. ‘Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

Minnie Driver (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
352 Seiten
Bonnier Publishing Fiction (Verlag)
978-1-78658-152-5 (ISBN)

Infos

'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving' - Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt''Vital, heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton'A wonderful memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day'An absolute jewel of a book. Gloriously readable, hilarious, painful, acute, sharply recalled and vividly brought to life' - Stephen FryA dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver.I love stories. I have mostly told other people's but now, in telling my own, I realize how all our stories are connected by that great leveller of acclaim, loss, fortitude, and fortune: being human.When I look at my life from the alleged halfway point, some patterns are revealed: one, that the story does not necessarily begin or end where it should; two, happy endings are overrated. And three, happy endings are almost never the end.This book is memoir-ish. A tell-most. Largely because there's a lot I don't remember, and a lot that's not worth talking about.So, this is a collection of stories about how things not working out - worked out in the end. How reaching for the dream is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream itself coming true.I really hope you enjoy it.Love, Minnie x

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 1990s • About a Boy • Acting • Actor • Actress • alan cumming • America • American • Autobiography • British • Chevalier • Cinderella • Circle of Friends • Comedy • Coming of Age • dolly alderton • Dolly Alderton Nora Ephron Pandora Sykes life stories • English • Essays • feminist • Funny • Golden Globe Award nominated • Good Will Hunting • Graham Norton • Graham Norton Lena Dunham Not That Kind of Girl Stephen Fry Elizabeth Day Adam Kay • Grosse Pointe Blank • Grosse Pointe Blank John Cusack Alan Cumming Minnie Questions podcast The Riches • Hardback • Hollywood • Humour • John Cusack • Life stories • Life Story • literary non-fiction • Matt Damon • Memoir • memoir in essays • Minnie Driver • Minnie Questions • Modern Love • new book • Non-fiction • Nora Ephron • oscar-nominated • Oscar-nominated Golden Globe Award nominated essays Hollywood acting feminist • Pandora Sykes • Podcast • rosaline • singer • singer singer-songwriter storyteller Matt Damon Good Will Hunting Circle of Friends • Singer-Songwriter • speechless • Starstruck • Storyteller • The Riches • True stories • Will & Grace • Will & Grace About a Boy Speechless Cinderella Rosaline Chevalier Modern Love Starstuck
• ISBN-10: 1-78658-152-3 / 1786581523
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78658-152-5 / 9781786581525