Fragments
Subtitle: Portraits from the Inside
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: August 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780571172221
Subjects: Biography: general; Films, cinema; Novels, other prose & writers; Performing Arts; Individual Directors And Producers; American English; Biography/Autobiography; Film - Direction & Production; General; Biography; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: Andre de Toth's remarkable, eccentric and utterly compelling memoir opens amidst the enchanted cafe society of pre-war Budapest. With a novelist's sense of time and place he propels the reader through a series of snapshots from his fantastically eventful life, from Vienna, Paris and London to Hollywood - where he encountered many of the legendary figures of cinema's golden age.

Ever the maverick, de Toth avoids the anodyne cliches of the show-biz biography. Brutally honest and frequently self-deprecating, Fragments is a memoir with bite.