“A beautiful memoir of a life-long obsession, a peek behind the curtains at the biographer’s art, and, not least, a rich and vivid portrait of Camus himself.”
—Benjamin Moser, Harper’s Magazine
Last night I stumbled upon the news in a cinema blog that the Italian director Gianni Amelio is making a movie of Albert Camus's last and unfinished novel The First Man, shooting it in North Africa where Camus grew up. I have found a video clip of the lead, French actor Jacques Gamblin, who resembles Camus, who was good-looking in the Bogart mode. Will investigate further.
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Elizabeth Hawes (also known as Betsy Hawes Weinstock) is the author of New York, New York, How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930. A former staff member and contributor to The New Yorker, she has written for The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Nation and numerous other publications. She also wrote Martha Stewart's best selling books Entertaining and Weddings.
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