Life's Work
A Memoir of Storytelling and Self-Destruction
$33.13
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2024
Summary
‘Illuminating … there is never a dull moment’ – The Times
‘Marvellous … full of riches’ – New Statesman
David Milch is the critically acclaimed writer of the iconic TV series Deadwood and NYPD Blue. As he descends into a dementia from which there’s no return, Life’s Work is his urgent account of his increasingly strange present and his often painful past.
Betting on race horses and stealing booze at eight years old, mentored by Robert Penn Wa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035005642 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035005646 |
| Author: | David Milch |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
Marvellous … a book full of riches. – Erica Wagner * The New Statesman *
Life’s Work is one of the best books about television I’ve read. It’s funny, discursive, literate, druggy, self-absorbed, fidgety, replete with intense perceptions … You finish feeling you’ve really met someone. Milch was his own best creation. * The New York Times *
A searing, brutally honest memoir. * The Independent *
A brilliant, emotional memoir … Takes the darkness of his own life and of those around him and turns it into something else, something that is threaded with hope. * Mail on Sunday *
A wise, sly, hilarious, and poignant account of a life’s work in hard drugs and hard television. – Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Netanyahus
Illuminating. * The Observer *
The most gorgeously humane voice I’ve encountered in a work of nonfiction in a long while. I can think of few recent books that have pulsed with life this transparently, this powerfully. – Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm
Like the best memoirs, Life’s Work is intimate, exquisitely observed, and intense. But unlike most - and what sets it apart - is the heartbreak it embodies, the finality it signals. This is David Milch’s farewell, and it will rock you. – Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief
An extraordinary story. * The Times *
About The Author
David Milch
David Milch graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, where he won the Tinker Prize. He earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He worked as a writing teacher and lecturer in English literature at Yale. During his teaching career, he assisted Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks in the writing of several college textbooks on literature. His poetry and fiction have been published in The Atlantic and Southern Review. In 1982, Milch wrote his first television script for Hill Street Blues. Since then, among other credits, Milch created and wrote the shows NYPD Blue, John from Cincinnati, Luck, and Deadwood.
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