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Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich
Blues of a Lifetime
is essential reading for people interested in suspense novelist Cornell Woolrich, author of Rear Window. Woolrich’s autobiography includes accounts of his working methods, his family and home, memories of childhood, college experience, and his philosophy of life.
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168 pages
Published
June 15th 1991
by Popular Press 1
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Cornell Woolrich is a new author on my plate. As things go, a woman, by chance or sychronicity told be about the author of REAR WINDOW and after doing a bit of amazon research (and, since I write thrillers & mysteries)I thought...why not? These few chapters are rich with Woolrich's amazing ability as a writer to 'take you there.' My only problem with this book was there just wasn't enough. I am forever a fan of this writer -- NOW -- but, would have loved to dive into this prolific genius's l
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Surprisingly touching and surprisingly sweet. It's easy to think of Woolrich as a suspense writer, but this loosely organized autobiography proves that he was equally as accomplished in other genres. I enjoyed reading a different perspective of my favorite author.
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Cornell Woolrich is widely regarded as the twentieth century’s finest writer of pure suspense fiction. The author of numerous classic novels and short stories (many of which were turned into classic films) such as Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Waltz Into Darkness, and I Married a Dead Man, Woolrich began his career in the 1920s writing mainstream novels that won
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“I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't.”
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