Name: A Positively Final Appearance
Rating: 3 (17 reviews)
ISBN: 9780140299649

A New York Times Notable Book from an Oscar award-winning icon.

First published
Nov 01, 2001
Publishers
Penguin Books

About Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE was an English actor. After an early career on the stage he was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including The Ladykillers and Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He is also known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Yevgraf in Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). He is also known for his portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy, receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor..

This second book from Alec Guinness differs from his first book by not being a diary. It does cover a few of his day to day activities.

"When I had finished it I felt bereft," writes Alec Guinness of a novel he had been reading. I know how he felt.

A 3 at times - a 4 at others - with some passages of sublime 5. I have not read his two other autobiographies- so I do feel at a disadvantage here - but there really is no rhyme or reason here- but quite a few - many passages that are transporting when Guinness describes moments from his past life on the stage - or hanging out with a drunk Beatrice Lillie on a transatlantic cruise - or in parts of France.

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