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In
Solid Ivory, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and director of
A Room with a View,
Howards End,
Maurice, and
The Remains of the Day, tells stories from the remarkable life and career of one of the most influential directors of his time in a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections. At times, they touch on his love affairs as he looks back coolly, and with unexpected frankness.
From first meeting his longtime collaborator and life partner Ismail Merchant at the Indian Consulate in New York to winning an Academy Award at eighty-nine for
Call Me by Your Name; from seeing his first film at five in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to memories of Satyajit Ray, Federico Fellini, Vanessa Redgrave, George Cukor, Kenneth Clark, Bruce Chatwin, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Ismail Merchant-Ivory writes with invariable fluency, wit, and perception about what made him who he is and how he made the movies for which he is known and loved.
Solid Ivory, edited by Peter Cameron, is an utterly winning portrait of an extraordinary life told by an unmatched storyteller.
About the author
James Ivory is an Academy Award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter. His directorial work includes
A Room with a View,
Howards End, and
The Remains of the Day, for each of which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. In 2017, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for
Call Me by Your Name. He has also won three BAFTA Awards, a Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Writers Guild of America Award, among many other honors.
Peter Cameron's novels include
What Happens at Night,
Coral Glynn, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, and
The City of Your Final Destination. He is also the author of three collections of short fiction, and more than ten of his stories have been published in
The New Yorker. He has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Yale University, and Columbia University.
Summary
The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James Ivory.
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The irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James Ivory.
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'A languid, enjoyably gossipy memoir from one half of Merchant Ivory that after a fascinating exploration of well-off, small-town American life in the Thirties and Forties, quickly gets eye-opening'
