New Confessions
New Confessions
A lesser known work by one of the country's finest writers. Loosely based on Rousseau's Confessions this sprawling story of a life lived in all its imperfections is engrossing and thought-provoking, stylish yet page-turning. - Angus
Read moreMeet John James Todd:Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element'
Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the last century. His reminiscences, collected in The New Confessions, take us from Edinburgh to the Western Front, the Berlin film-world in the Twenties to Hollywood in the Thirties, Forties and beyond. Suffering imprisonment, shooting, marriage, fatherhood, divorce and McCarthyism, Todd is a hostage to good fortune, ill-judgement, bad luck, the vast sweep of history and the cruel, cruel hand of fate . . .
A lesser known work by one of the country's finest writers. Loosely based on Rousseau's Confessions this sprawling story of a life lived in all its imperfections is engrossing and thought-provoking, stylish yet page-turning. - Angus