Bitter Sweet: A Biography of Noel Coward

by Philip Hoare

Book Overview

To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker, No l Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. His biographer, Philip Hoare, given... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684809370
• ISBN13: 9780684809373
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The Definitive Noel Coward

Philip Hoare has compiled the most complete of all the Coward biographies and I think I have read them all save Cole Lesley's. Hoare points out dramatically what a complicated personality Coward was and how his sexual orientation impacted his talent and his fame. I worked with Coward late in his life (1960/61) and knew only his celebrity. His autobiographies and most of the other bios dealt only on that level. It took Hoare and the passage of time to reveal the more complicated and private side of his amazing life. I will always cherish my brief encounter with the Master.