Kevin brownlow david lean biography

Giant and wide, weighing in at something like ten to fifteen pounds, with over 700 pages of densely packed text plus pictures, notes and index, "David Lean: A Biography" is as grand and epic and ambitious as its subject matter.

Author Kevin Brownlow put together one massive book, covering every aspect of David Lean's life, through sixteen films and six wives, through worldwide living and creating and filming.

David lean biography

If ever you were curious about Lean's life, THIS is the book.

...and, it's good, very good. Rarely does a biography so comprehensively cover a person's life and career. Kevin Brownlow had impressive access to friends, family, co-workers, associates, and all manner of men and women who knew or were associated with, or were in love with David Lean.

More importantly, Kevin Brownlow actually knew Lean, and spent hours interviewing him, so some of the book's thoughts and detailed opinions and facts came from first-hand accounts by David Lean hi