Another Life: A Memoir of Other People
β Scribed by Korda, Michael
- Book ID
- 107804610
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307808356
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In his remarkable memoir, at once frank, audacious, canny, and revealing, Michael Korda, the author of Charmed Lives and Queenie, does for the world of books what Moss Hart did for the theater in Act One, and succeeds triumphantly in making publishing seem as exciting (and as full of great characters) as the stage.
Another Life is not just an adventure--the engaging and often hilarious story of a young man making his career--but the insider's story of how a cottage industry metamorphosed into a big business, with sometimes alarming results for all concerned.
Korda writes with grace, humor, and a shrewd eye, not only about himself and his rise from a lowly (but not humble) assistant editor reading the "slush pile" of manuscripts to a famous editor in chief of a major publishing house, but also about the celebrities and writers with whom he worked over four decades.
Here are portraits--rare, intimate, always keenly observed--of...
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