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34/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Paul Newman, Melissa Newman, Clea Newman Soderlund
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
October 18, 2022
Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life.
What The Reviewers Say
Newman at his best.
An odd duck of a book — welcome, but odd.
The show is a lot more satisfying than the book.
Relatively slender in girth, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is perhaps the least mediated and most conflicted part of the whole renaissance because it bears within it all the riven emotions its subject might be expected to feel at its release.
