The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man

Eye-popping…Astonishing naked honesty * Telegraph *Newman at his best…Twice the book one could have dared to hope for, a narrative that is astute, introspective and surprisingly graceful. * Wall Street Journal *A stunning memoir…stuns with brutal honesty…smolders with introspection * Daily Mail *It’s never not psychologically fascinating - a compelling insight into how profoundly right Philip Larkin was about the power of bad parents * The Times *Paul Newman is worthy of canonisation * Daily Mail *A shocking posthumous memoir based on Paul Newman’s brutally honest lost recordings * Express *Astonishing…only burnishes his reputation. Not because he bangs on about his glorious deeds - in fact he barely mentions them at all - but because this once very private man reveals so much of his fascinating, never disappointing self – Hadley Freeman * Guardian *Beautifully frank and surprisingly powerful * Filmjuice *Painfully honest and full of jaw-dropping revelations * Spectator *This is not your usual Hollywood celebrity memoir…this is an exercise in soul-searching, in public therapy * Mail on Sunday *

Paul Newman was an American actor, film director, race car driver, and entrepreneur. Newman received numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA, three Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. His major film roles include The Hustler, Hud, Harper, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Verdict, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Nobody’s Fool, The Road to Perdition, and the voice role of Doc Hudson in Disney-Pixar’s Cars. A ten-time Oscar nominee, Newman won an Academy Award for Best Actor for The Color of Money. Newman won several national championships as a race car driver. A political activist and humanitarian, he raised and donated nearly one billion dollars to many charities. Newman had six children and was married to Oscar-winning actress Joanne Woodward for 50 years. He died in 2008 at the age of 83.

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