Published: North Kingstown : AudioGO, 2011
Description: 1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN: 9781611137934,
Language: English
Title from: Title details screen
Number of tracks: 12
Duration: 14:16:44
Transfer to Apple device: Yes
OverDrive subjects: Biography and Autobiography, Nonfiction
Reader: Edward Herrmann
He was a fixture on television for over 30 years, co-hosting Siskel & Ebert at the Movies until Gene Siskel's death in 1999, and then with Richard Roper until 2006. Since 1967, he's been an influential film critic (and was the first to ever win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism). In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of the ability to eat, drink, or speak. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career. He chronicles his loves, losses, and obsessions; his recovery from alcoholism, his marriage, his politics, and his spiritual beliefs. He also provides details about his years at the Sun Times, his colorful newspaper friends, his friendships with Oprah Winfrey, Studs Terkel, and others, insights into stars like John Wayne, Lee Marvin, and Robert Mitchum, and his perspective on such influential directors as..
Requires OverDrive Media Console 1.0 / 1.0 (Windows Mobile)
Format: OverDrive WMA Audiobook
Mode of access: World Wide Web
File size: 205194 KB
In English
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