Paul Newman

Newman at his best...Twice the book one could have dared to hope for, a narrative that is astute, introspective and surprisingly graceful.

A stunning memoir...stuns with brutal honesty...smolders with introspection

It's never not psychologically fascinating - a compelling insight into how profoundly right Philip Larkin was about the power of bad parents

A shocking posthumous memoir based on Paul Newman's brutally honest lost recordings

Astonishing...only burnishes his reputation. Not because he bangs on about his glorious deeds - in fact he barely mentions them at all - but because this once very private man reveals so much of his fascinating, never disappointing self

Beautifully frank and surprisingly powerful

Painfully honest and full of jaw-dropping revelations

This is not your usual Hollywood celebrity memoir...this is an exercise in soul-searching, in public therapy

A candid reflection on life filled with insecurity

Paul Newman speaks with a rawness in self-lacerating confession. His voice is that of a man breaking his silence, getting things off his chest. it is spiky and bitter, ironic and sharp, intelligent and unrelentingly self-critical.

A fascinating insight into an icon who never felt comfortable with the Hollywood myth

A Memoir

The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. 
 
In 2008, Paul Newman tasked his best friend with interviewing the people who had shaped his life, in order to create an oral history of it. After hearing and reading what they had to say, Newman dictated his own version. Now, this long-lost memoir will be published. Full of wonderful stories and recollections by his family, friends, and such luminaries as Elia Kazan, Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill and Martin Ritt, this book will surprise and shock readers as it reveals Newman's previously unknown sides. 
 
In this extraordinary memoir, Newman details his fascinating story: from troubled beginnings, marked by fraught relationships with both his mother and father, to the iconic film roles (both good and bad) that cemented his status as a Hollywood icon and heartthrob, and the complicated relationships that were formed along the way.

Paul Newman

Praise for The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man

Eye-popping...Astonishing naked honesty

Newman at his best...Twice the book one could have dared to hope for, a narrative that is astute, introspective and surprisingly graceful.

A stunning memoir...stuns with brutal honesty...smolders with introspection

Eye-popping...Astonishing naked honesty

Newman at his best...Twice the book one could have dared to hope for, a narrative that is astute, introspective and surprisingly graceful.

A stunning memoir...stuns with brutal honesty...smolders with introspection

Eye-popping...Astonishing naked honesty

Newman at his best...Twice the book one could have dared to hope for, a narrative that is astute, introspective and surprisingly graceful.

A stunning memoir...stuns with brutal honesty...smolders with introspection

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