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A Life in Parts
A Life in Parts
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Author: Brian Cranston Publisher: Scribner Book Company Format: Softcover # of Pages: 288 Pub. Date: 2017 ISBN-10: 1476793875 ISBN-13: 9781476793870
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About
the Book:
"Nothing short of riveting ... an engrossing first-person
account by one of our finest actors" (Huffington
Post) – both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on
creativity, devotion, and craft – Bryan Cranston, beloved
and acclaimed star of one of history's most successful TV shows,
Breaking Bad.
Bryan Cranston began his acting career at the age of seven,
when his father, a struggling actor and sometime director, cast him
in a commercial for United Way. By fifth grade he was starring in the
school play, spending hours at the local movie theater, and
re-enacting favourite scenes with his brother in their living room.
Cranston seemed destined to be an actor. But then his father left.
And his family fell apart. Troubled by his father's missteps,
Cranston abandoned his acting aspirations and resolved to pursue a
steadier career in law enforcement. Then, on a two-year cross-country
motorcycle journey, Cranston re-discovered his talent for acting and
found his mission and his calling.
In this "must-read memoir" (The
Philadelphia Inquirer), Bryan Cranston traces the many
roles he inhabited throughout his remarkable life, both on and off
screen. For the first time he shares the story of his early years as
an actor on the soap opera Loving, his recurring spots on
Seinfeld, and his time as bumbling father Hal on Malcolm in
the Middle, to his tour-de-force, Tony-winning performance as
Lyndon Baines Johnson in Broadway's All the Way, to his most
iconic role of all: Breaking Bad's Walter White.
"An illuminating window into the actor's psyche"
(People), Bryan Cranston has much to say about
creativity, devotion, and craft, as well as innate talent and its
challenges and benefits and proper maintenance. "By turns
gritty, funny, and sad" (Entertainment Weekly),
ultimately A Life in Parts
is a story about the joy, the necessity, and the transformative
power of simple hard work.
About the Author:
Bryan Cranston won four Emmy
Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal
of Walter White in AMC's Breaking Bad. He holds the honour of being
the first actor in a cable series, and the second lead actor in the
history of the Emmy Awards, to receive three consecutive wins. In
2014 he won a Tony Award for his role as Lyndon Johnson in the
bio-play All the Way. In film, he received an Academy Award
nomination for his leading role in Trumbo. Among his numerous
television and film appearances, he was nominated for a Golden Globe
and three Emmys for his portrayal of Hal in FOX's Malcolm in the
Middle. He is the author of A Life in Parts.
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