Fragments
About this book
Andre de Toth's remarkable, eccentric and utterly compelling memoir opens amidst the enchanted cafe society of pre-war Budapest. With a novelist's sense of time and place he propels the reader through a series of snap-shots from his fantastically eventful life, from Vienna, Paris and London to Hollywood - where he encountered many of the legendary figures of cinema's golden age.
Ever the maverick, de Toth avoids the anodyne cliches of the show biz biography. Brutally honest and frequently self-deprecating,
Fragments is a memoir with bite.
Also included is an illuminating preface by Bertrand Tavernier.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword by Martin Scorsese
- Preface by Bertrand Tavernier
- Dedications
- 1 Breakfast in the Café New York
- 2 An Eiben Coffee
- 3 Mausoleum of Yesterday
- 4 A Ball ‘This Big’
- 5 No Angels Fly Barefoot
- 6 Revolving Doors
- 7 It’s Not Enough to be Hungarian
- 8 It Never Rains in California
- 9 The Stork’s Egg
- 10 A Slim Twist
- 11 The Great Dane from America
- 12 Growing Up
- 13 Rabbits Running
- 14 Comedies of Error
- 15 Faking It
- 16 Traffic
- 17 Dangerous Waters
- 18 Monkeys, Tyrants and Slave-drivers
- 19 Watching Camels
- 20 Guardian Angels
- 21 Nicknames
- 22 Billion Dollar Battles
- 23 True-Blue Pros
- 24 Playing Dirty
- 25 Changing Courses
- 26 A Cup of Cubby Coffee
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright