THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDavid Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films such as Eraserhead,The Elephant Man,Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive - opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity,the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced to bring his projects to fruition.Room to Dream is both an astonishing memoir told in Lynch's own words and a landmark biography based on hundreds of interviews,that offers unique insights into the life and mind of one of the world's most enigmatic and original artists.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781782118411Number of pages: 592Weight: 390 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mmEdition: Main
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If you expected a David Lynch biography to be just like any other biography,you've never seen a David Lynch movie...FascinatingA hybrid biography bulging with more than 100 interviews...it shows us Lynch the artist,the director,the lover,the child...Room to Dream provides contours and edges,brief splashes of insight and teasing tugs on the line. But the man at the centre remains a beautiful mystery...IlluminatingLynch is the master of the perverse,the unsettling and the plain bonkersLynch's life as an artist is genuinely fascinating,and his observations on it are illuminatingIntriguing...David Lynch has never lacked room to dream,for which we and he must thank our lucky starsDavid Lynch's memoir illuminates the origins of his art...the humour and eccentricity of Mr Lynch's own reminiscences and observations are the book's main pleasureReassuringly unconventional...Engrossing...Lynch writes like he speaks. He's disarmingly direct,cheerfully profane and prone to bursts of giddy enthusiasmRoom to Dream is a memorable portrait of one of cinema's great auteurs...Provides a remarkable insight into Lynch's intense commitment to the "art life",from his painting,photography and music to furniture designWith the publication of Room to Dream,he has sought to reinvent the celebrity memoirPlayfully disrupts the genre of memoir-writing
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