Montgomery clift bio biography patricia bosworth

If you read any biography of Montgomery Clift, read this one. The rest don't matter.

I spent half of this book wanting to cry.

Montgomery Clift: A Biography - Patricia Bosworth - Google Books

For the sheer pain and loss of it, of watching this car crash happen for ten years and even for years before then, of yearning for him to make good, for him to be the hero you always sensed in the movies that he wanted to be even if the movie journeys ended in tragedy themselves.

It's such an accomplishment of a book, how it manages to work so much detail and so much intimacy into a perfectly organic narrative without any sense of enforced structure or laboured pace.

I'm used to reading Donald Spoto's meticulously footnoted and referenced biographies. I've read a lot of biographies. And this is a style I've never encountered before --- at once effortless and deceptively skilful.

What did astonish me though was the curious anonymity given to so many people, so many lovers of both male and female persuasions Montgomery Clift: A Biography by Patricia Bosworth - Goodreads RIV