Sonny boy : a memoir [large print] / Al Pacino.

Pacino, Al, 1940- (author.).

Summary:

To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies - The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon - that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force. But Pacino was in his mid-30s by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theatre in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593949269
ISBN: 0593949269
Physical Description: viii, 446 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition: First large print edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2024].
Copyright: ©2024.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

A blade of grass -- A change -- A tiger and an Indian -- The new world -- Grown-ups don't do things like this -- The business we've chosen -- Maximum velocity -- Every day above ground is a good day -- It's over -- Just when I thought I was out -- Forty dollars a day (and all the donuts you can eat) -- You can always buy new friends -- The undiscovered country -- Who speaks of triumph? To endure is everything.