Jabberwocky Press Announces the Release of Menacing Face Worth Millions: A Life of Charles Bronson, Biography by Brian D’Ambrosio, Available November 2011
Menacing Face Worth Millions: A Life of Charles Bronson, by Brian D'Ambrosio, is the first biography of legendary screen actor Charles Bronson in thirty years.
Missoula, MT, October 19, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Jabberwocky Press proudly announces that Menacing Face Worth Millions: A Life of Charles Bronson, the first biography of the legendary screen actor in more than 30 years, will be available November 13, 2011. No biography of Bronson has been written or released since 1981. Jabberwocky Press knows that a book of this magnitude is long overdue for Mr. Bronson.
Charles Bronson was the silver screen legend who forever changed America’s – and the world’s – idea of the leading man’s looks: a poverty-stricken coal miner who became one of the most popular, highly-paid film stars of his day. No movie that Charles Bronson ever made can equal the reclusive life he led and the contradictions of his own hidden self. In this definitive retelling of Bronson’s life – the first fully documented biography of the star – Brian D’Ambrosio looks at the vigilante tough guy’s life and legacy and explores the events and issues that made him emblematic of his time.
In a readable, relatable style, Brian D'Ambrosio relays the fact that Charles Bronson won't be remembered as a terrific actor. But he will be noted as an unlikely symbol of his times. He took his mystique to the grave with him, despite all the efforts of the followers and fanatics who have tried to demystify it.
Throughout Menacing Face Worth Millions, the author dissects the Bronson mystique and separates the facts from the myths that inevitably sprout like mushrooms out of the lingering memory of a mysterious icon. Most importantly, it provides both the background – the innate complexity of the context in which Bronson lived his life – and minibiographies of important people and events in that life. The book does this without tiring the reader or losing the gist or yarn of narration.
What is to be is our continual perception and memory of Charles Bronson. Art, like nature or humanity, insists upon continuance. The perpetual face of the artist/actor remains powerful and authoritative. With his reputation for being a loner and isolating himself from the cast members and others, Bronson on the one hand was so remote, so determinedly on his own – an anguished, self-riven man awkwardly straddling the pathos of yesterday and the bountifulness of present. Bronson was also, in a characteristically contradictory and complex fashion, undeniably one of us.
Audiences worldwide were drawn to his explosiveness, violence, and unconventionality, and admired him for those traits. Private, reclusive, and reticent, Bronson's motives and inner thoughts were always shrouded in mystery.
That has been the goal of this book – to separate the facts from the myth and bring back the real Charles Bronson, the man behind the legend – to intrigue and, if fortunate, to inspire a new generation of devotees. Jabberwocky Press is pleased to introduce a book of this stature to the world.
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Charles Bronson was the silver screen legend who forever changed America’s – and the world’s – idea of the leading man’s looks: a poverty-stricken coal miner who became one of the most popular, highly-paid film stars of his day. No movie that Charles Bronson ever made can equal the reclusive life he led and the contradictions of his own hidden self. In this definitive retelling of Bronson’s life – the first fully documented biography of the star – Brian D’Ambrosio looks at the vigilante tough guy’s life and legacy and explores the events and issues that made him emblematic of his time.
In a readable, relatable style, Brian D'Ambrosio relays the fact that Charles Bronson won't be remembered as a terrific actor. But he will be noted as an unlikely symbol of his times. He took his mystique to the grave with him, despite all the efforts of the followers and fanatics who have tried to demystify it.
Throughout Menacing Face Worth Millions, the author dissects the Bronson mystique and separates the facts from the myths that inevitably sprout like mushrooms out of the lingering memory of a mysterious icon. Most importantly, it provides both the background – the innate complexity of the context in which Bronson lived his life – and minibiographies of important people and events in that life. The book does this without tiring the reader or losing the gist or yarn of narration.
What is to be is our continual perception and memory of Charles Bronson. Art, like nature or humanity, insists upon continuance. The perpetual face of the artist/actor remains powerful and authoritative. With his reputation for being a loner and isolating himself from the cast members and others, Bronson on the one hand was so remote, so determinedly on his own – an anguished, self-riven man awkwardly straddling the pathos of yesterday and the bountifulness of present. Bronson was also, in a characteristically contradictory and complex fashion, undeniably one of us.
Audiences worldwide were drawn to his explosiveness, violence, and unconventionality, and admired him for those traits. Private, reclusive, and reticent, Bronson's motives and inner thoughts were always shrouded in mystery.
That has been the goal of this book – to separate the facts from the myth and bring back the real Charles Bronson, the man behind the legend – to intrigue and, if fortunate, to inspire a new generation of devotees. Jabberwocky Press is pleased to introduce a book of this stature to the world.
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