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Narrated by:
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David Drummond
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By:
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Lawrence Grobel
About this listen
When John Huston died at 81 on August 28, 1987, America lost a towering figure in movie history. The director of such classic films as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, Prizzi's Honor, and The Dead, John Huston evoked passionate responses from everyone he encountered. He was at the center of a dynasty, with three generations of Oscar winners (Walter, John and Anjelica). Now, for the first time as an audiobook, the complete story of this remarkable family is told in The Hustons by Lawrence Grobel. The book chronicles the family's history - from Walter's days on the vaudeville circuit and his later fame on Broadway, through John's meteoric rise, to Anjelica's emergence as a great actress in film today. Grobel interviewed John Huston for over 100 hours and conducted 200 interviews with John's four children, three of his five wives, many of his mistresses, producers, writers, technicians, and a number of celebrities who rarely grant interviews. J.P. Donleavy named The Hustons the best book of the year when it was published. James A. Michener dubbed it a "Masterpiece." Kirkus called it "Spellbinding." Larry King thought it, "Biography writing at its absolute best." Frederick Raphael wrote, "The Hustons is a delicious, wicked guide to the delicious, wicked life of a sly, sadistic scoundrel who was equaled only by Byron in the sentimental cynicism and fecund carelessness with which he played the world's game." Alyn Brodsky in The Miami Herald called it, "An engrossing study in family dynamics… Marvelous… This is one of the best biographies of a Hollywood personality since - actually, I can't recall since when." And the Hollywood Reporter said it "Reads like a gutsy movie that might have been made by Huston himself."
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- Peter Harbron
- 10-08-22
interesting and we'll narrated
everything you ever wanted to know about John Huston and his family. I enjoyed it as a book that helped me go to sleep each night.
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- Austen J. Lennon
- 10-12-22
Great book about an awful man.
Worth reading but the subject was not a nice person at all. He was bitter, salacious and vile. To me he should be forgotten about.
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- Linda T
- 31-05-24
The Hustons
What a book. You could say he was a horrible man but I don’t think he’d care a jot what anyone thought of him.
I lost count of how many women he had and treated everyone worse than the last one.
Would highly recommend
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- Shirley
- 23-01-23
Narration and story excellent
I enjoyed everything about this book. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the Hustons and Hollywood.
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- Tonkabean
- 12-10-21
tedious trivia read by a sycophantic robot
the narration made it unlistenable, honestly sounded like AI. it seemed that anything John Huston and anyone associated with him had ever said qualified as enthralling detail. Deadly dull. That said I couldn't tolerate more than 1 of the 37 hours, so perhaps it improves.
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