The Gift

Literature & Fiction

kirk-douglas

Contemporary

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Dance with the Devil

Arrow

Last Tango In Brooklyn

Arrow Books

My Stroke of Luck

Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas breaks the barrier yet again with his new book MY STROKE OF LUCK. Within it he shares with readers, for the first time, his experiences and inspirations in a punishing battle to return to life after a stroke. His affliction attracted attention worldwide during the Academy Awards when he accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award to a standing ovation from a tearful Hollywood crowd. It was his first public appearance since the debilitating attack. Even more honest and insightful than his previous book CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN, Kirk Douglas discusses his anguish at his plight and at the same time, he offers advice, exercises and lessons he learned while in recovery that lifted him from deep depression back to a joyful, loving husband, father and grandfather. He even managed to renew his professional life at the age of 83 as a working actor in the 1999 film Diamonds with Lauren Bacall. His emotional and poignant closing is sure to draw a tear and leave an impression on readers moved by his humorous, memorable, touching and helpful words in what Douglas admits will most likely be his final book.

Biographies & Memoirs

Time Warner Books Uk

The Ragman's Son: An Autobiography

Arts & Literature

Pan Books

Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning

Pocket_Books

<p>Kirk Douglas' autobiography charts his rise from son of an illiterate Russian-Jewish ragman to celebrity. He tells of a childhood of poverty and the father whose presence had a profound effect on him. It reveals the inside story of his stardom and relationships with other actors and actresses.</p>

The Ragman's Son

The RAGMAN'S SON

Pocket

<p>An autobiography of Issur Danielovitch Demsky-more widely known as Kirk Douglas. He was the son of illiterate Russian Jewish immigrants and grew up in the WASP town of Amsterdam, NY. He learned early on that his status in life was that of a "nobody". Yet he persevered, grew up, graduated high school, went to college, dipped his toes into theater after graduation; but delayed that career path as there was a war on. He went to the Notre Dame Midshipman School and then went on to serve his country as a Communications Officer in antisubmarine warfare during World War II. But after Ensign Douglas' service to his country, he began his long career in theater. This autobiography poignantly illustrates the hopes and disappointments of a career in acting, including the nonacting means of making a living that many aspiring stars know only so well. Book is in very good condition w/ black/white photographs; dust jacket is in very good condition with microtears at edges and small 7/16th tear bottom front of jacket; dust jacket is not price clipped; pages are clean; binding is tight; no edgewear noted on book; Prior owner's signature on front flyleaf.</p>

Kirk Douglas: The Ragman's Son, An Autobiography

Simon&Schuster

Patricia Dennison's life is a chain of melodramatic events on the disastrous scale of the Titanic. Terrorists have executed her father on a passenger plane. She has inherited a multibillion-dollar empire that she doesn't want, & whose directors are plotting against her. The philanthropic doctor to whom she is engaged turns out to be gay. So she falls instead for a Portuguese bullfighter (who has just killed the husband of his last unfaithful lover). And so, with grandiose implausibility, the successive episodes crash one upon the next

THE GIFT

Warner Books, Inc.

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