An Orderly Man

by Dirk Bogarde

Book Overview

First published in 1983, An Orderly Man is volume three of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirsAfter completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394532163
• ISBN13: 9780394532165
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A charming series of essays, but hardly revealing

Charming raconeteur Bogarde compiled this verbose series of essays about his "orderly" life straddling Europe and the Unites States...country gentleman and film star. He recounts incidents with wit and candor, such as the decline and deaths of his elderly parents and the struggles in making & marketing his film "The Night Porter." And yet, there is strangely (and disappointingly) very little of the man, himself, revealed in any of this. Other than the fact that he seems alternately laconic and easily annoyed, the reader is never given a sense of what Bogarde the man is really all about. This is certainly a book you CAN put down and pick up again later. I suspect a closer look at the real Dirk Bogarde can be found in his excellent film, "Despair."