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Harold, September 2011
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The Boy Who Became Mark Twain
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
480 pages
ISBN: 0374281017
EAN: 9780374281014
Kindle: B004WJN7OQ
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Was it worth it, this awful struggle to survive, no matter
what the cost?" Harold is Hal Holbrook’s affecting memoir of growing up
behind disguises, and his lifelong search for himself.
Abandoned by his mother and father when he was two, Holbrook
and his two sisters each commenced their separate journeys
of survival. Raised by his powerful grandfather until his
death when Holbrook was twelve, Holbrook spent his childhood
at boarding schools, visiting his father in an insane
asylum, and hoping his mother would suddenly surface in
Hollywood. As the Second World War engulfed Europe, Holbrook
began acting almost by accident. Thereafter, through war,
marriage, and the work of honing his craft, his fear of
insanity and his fearlessness in the face of risk were
channeled into his discovery that the riskiest path of
all—success as an actor—would be his birthright. The climb
up that tough, tough mountain was going to be a lonely one.
And how he achieved it—the cost to his wife and children and
to his own conscience—is the dark side of his eventual fame
from performing the man his career would forever be most
closely associated with, the iconic Mark Twain.
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