Alec Guinness
Subtitle: the authorised biography
By: Piers Paul Read.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 632
Subjects: Guinness, Alec, 1914-; Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
First sentence: 'My mother was a whore,' Alec told the author John Le Carre and his wife Jane, standing in the kitchen of Le Carre's house, Tregiffian,  on the cliff top of the south coast of Cornwall.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [616]-619) and index.