
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy'
on where eagles dare
$22.41
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2018
Summary
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: A Hilarious Dive into ‘Where Eagles Dare’
An extremely funny, scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare, published as the film approaches its 50th anniversary.
Where Eagles Dare is both a thrillingly realized Alpine Second World War adventure – with tough, compelling acting from its two great stars – and a flippant travesty, infantilizing the central disaster in Europe’s modern history …
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780141987620 |
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ISBN-10: | 0141987626 |
Author: | Geoff Dyer |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 128 |
Release Date: | 14 October 2018 |
Weight: | 94g |
Dimensions: | 180mm x 112mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
Blissfully funny
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy is a hilariously funny, freewheeling rule-breaking wholly original scene-by-scene sprint through the crazy action from Where Eagles Dare. I defy anyone not to laugh at Dyer’s description of Clint Eastwood’s talent for squinting or when face-to-face with armed Nazis, ‘not just swinging but squinting in German’. – Craig Brown * Daily Mail, Books of the Year *Blissfully funny * Guardian *
About The Author
Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in California.
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