Making it so : a memoir / Patrick Stewart.

By:

Stewart, Patrick, 1940-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover editionDescription: x, 469 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781982167738
1982167734

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DDC classification:

792.092 B 23/eng/20230916

LOC classification:

PN2598.S747 A3 2023

Summary: "From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life--from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim--proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, hepresents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life--from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim--proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction	New Books	792.092 STE	Pending hold		36748002537266

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart!

From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So , a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life--from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim--proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself.

Includes index.

"From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life--from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim--proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself"-- Provided by publisher.

"From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, hepresents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life--from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim--proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgments (445)
Index (447)

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Kirkus Book Review

A charming memoir of a long life onstage and onscreen. Before Stewart (b. 1940) captained a starship on Star Trek: The Next Generation, he was a fixture on the London stage. Before he was an acclaimed Shakespearean actor, he was a struggling drama student, and before that a working-class child of Yorkshire. He became a voracious reader to escape an unhappy childhood, and, he writes, "the stage would prove to be a safe space, a refuge from real life in which I could inhabit another person, living in another place and time." He skipped the equivalent of high school because he couldn't afford the uniform, but, placed in a less traditional school, he fell into acting classes, followed by apprenticeships, during which one adviser told him that he would one day be a famed character actor--in 20 years' time. Those two decades passed, and Stewart was taking roles in theatrical productions and films such as David Lynch's Dune, where he admits to a faux pas with another Yorkshireman: Sting, whose band The Police he'd never heard of. Indeed, part of Stewart's appeal is his admission that, while grave and commanding behind the persona, he scarcely paid attention to pop-culture phenomena such as the Beatles, even though he became friends with Paul McCartney (who once exclaimed, over drinks with Stewart and a bandmate, "Sir Ringo. Sir Patrick. Sir Paul. Hey--we've got the Knights of the bloody Round Table!"). Funny and self-effacing, Stewart is gracious as he describes the talented players--Vivien Leigh, Helen Mirren, Malcolm McDowell, and yes, the cast of Star Trek--he's worked with. One wants only for more notes on how an actor's work proceeds, for Stewart is a master, even if a humble one. A pleasure through and through--and you don't even have to be a Trekkie. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.