![]() ![]() First serial to Life and Ladies' Home Journal BOMC main selection Readers' Digest Condensed Book selection. A reader regrets that Burton's death in 1984 at age 58 cut short a life so luminous and full of promise still. There are also perceptive critiques of the star's successes on stage ( Hamlet, Camelot, Equus ) and in film ( Becket, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ). of his family who made available to Bragg various diaries and letters. More affecting are reminiscences of Burton's Welsh family, his mentors Philip Burton and Emlyn Williams, friends and co-stars who share memories of the rise of a poor miner's son to world renown. A biography of Richard Burton containing his own words. The biography, however, is heavily repetitious about the mutually obsessive loving and destructive Taylor/Burton relationship: their years in the international spotlight, their profligate spending and insatiable drinking their extreme generosity to those in need. The revelations will appeal to readers avid for gossip but they are more interesting as evidence of the late actor's writing gifts and of his literary ambitions. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. Burton comes alive in Bragg's meticulous biography, raved Time magazine of this New York Times bestseller-the book that reveals for the first time the legendary star's intimate, private diaries and exposes the truth behind his torrid love affair with Elizabeth Taylor. ![]() ![]() British author Bragg quotes extensively from Burton's notebooks in which he related his most private thoughts. Thorndike Press, 1988 - Actors - 1104 pages. ![]()
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