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Title: J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin, SHARON GOODE ISBN: 0-300-09822-7 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Lost Boys Return
Comment: I read this book when it was first released and then had to go to a dealer selling used books to track down a copy to buy.
It's a beautifully written book and a haunting real life story.
The icing on the cake of the reissue of the book would be the release of the BBC miniseries on video or better yet, DVD.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sad and Beautiful Story
Comment: Wonderful news ... this new edition makes available a book that's been out-of print for much too long.
Birkin completed the book when adapting the story of J M Barrie for a BBC mini-series, The Lost Boys. As well as writing Peter Pan, Barrie was in his time, regarded as a playwright the equal of George Bernard Shaw. That his work quickly fell out of favour may be due to its pathos and close relation to Barrie's own life.
I stumbled across this book over ten years ago, and its poignancy, honestly and power have been with me ever since.
It centres around the Llewelyn Davies family, which became the inspiration for Peter Pan, but went on to have an even more profound impact upon the life of the melancholic Scottish playwright.
As one of the protagonists later wrote, the masses of photographs (extensively reproduced in the book) seem to foretell the whole sad story. Indeed, Birkin's strength is allowing the story to unfold through letters, images and quotation from Barrie's surprisingly autobiographical work. What emerges is the finest of biographies. Peter Pan acquires a whole new sad significance in the light of this book, and it captures the fading Edwardian twighlight exquisitely.
Upon the death of the last of the Llewelyn Davies boys (after first publication), the majority of the material used in the book was bequeathed to Birkin, a ringing endorsement of his sensitive and perceptive retelling of the story.
I cannot recommend this book too highly.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sad and beautiful story
Comment: Wonderful news ... this new edition will make a classic available to new readers.
Birkin completed the book when adapting the story of J M Barrie for a BBC mini-series, The Lost Boys. As well as writing Peter Pan, Barrie was in his time, regarded as a playwright the equal of George Bernard Shaw. That his work quickly fell out of favour may be due to its pathos and close relation to Barrie's own life.
I stumbled across this book over ten years ago, and its poignancy, honestly and power have been with me ever since.
It centres around the Llewelyn Davies family, which became the inspiration for Peter Pan, but went on to have an even more profound impact upon the life of the melancholic Scottish playwright.
As one of the protagonists later wrote, the masses of photographs (extensively reproduced in the book) seem to foretell the whole sad story. Indeed, Birkin's strength is allowing the story to unfold through letters, images and quotation from Barrie's surprisingly autobiographical work. What emerges is the finest of biographies. Peter Pan acquires a whole new sad significance in the light of this book, and it captures the fading Edwardian twighlight exquisitely.
Upon the death of the last of the Llewelyn Davies boys (after first publication), the majority of the material used in the book was bequeathed to Birkin, a ringing endorsement of his sensitive and perceptive retelling of the story.
I cannot recommend this book too highly.
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Title: Now or Neverland: Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth : A Psychological Perspective on a Cultural Icon (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 82) by Ann Yeoman ISBN: 091912383X Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens : Peter and Wendy (Oxford World's Classics) by J. M. Barrie, Peter Hollindale ISBN: 0192839292 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Libertine by Stephen Jeffreys, Mickey Gallagher ISBN: 1854592777 Publisher: Nick Hern Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Depp by Christopher Heard ISBN: 1550224700 Publisher: ECW Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title:Peter Pan (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B0001HAISG Publisher: Universal Studios Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $20.24 |
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