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Sonny Boy

A Memoir

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Sonny Boy

Av: Al Pacino
Berättare: Al Pacino
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller • One of People Magazine's Top 10 Books of the Year

"The rare celebrity memoir that's also a literary read. As funny as it is reflective, it shares stories behind Pacino's hardscrabble upbringing, classic films and journey to icon status." —People Magazine

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full

To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies—The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon—that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force.

But Pacino was in his midthirties by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theater in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him. After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York’s fabled High School of Performing Arts, the die was cast. In good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe.

Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce at the highest levels. The book’s golden thread, however, is the spirit of love and purpose. Love can fail you, and you can be defeated in your ambitions—the same lights that shine bright can also dim. But Al Pacino was lucky enough to fall deeply in love with a craft before he had the foggiest idea of any of its earthly rewards, and he never fell out of love. That has made all the difference.
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Great listen! I really enjoyed listening to him read about his life from when he was growing up, behind the scenes of his films. Very interesting!

Al Pacino

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Book as a whole is ok read, story telling was not Al-s strong side, he jumps all over the place and tells stories that "you had to be there" to be funny, but don't know how to "paint a picture" to put the reader, or in this case listener there. In global, there is some mindful and good lesions to pull from the book, but he could of do much better job of telling his story.

Interesting... in parts

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Absolutely fascinating. Very honest, deeply moving about a wonderful actor searching for something truthful and meaningful, spaning decades of film and theatre history. Al Pacino reads it himself so gentle and calm that you have the feeling his sitting right next to just telling a story. Briliant

A great Biography

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Like listening to a demented old man freely associating random thoughts. incorent thoughts, no narrarive, no purpose.

awful!

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