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Richard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the
Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the hanks
of the old Nile, playing great Antony to Elizabeth
Taylor’s Cleopatra.
From the West End to Hollywood, from Came/of
to Shakespeare, he drank, dazzled and despaired,
playing out his life on the public stage.
But there was another, quieter, off-stage Richard
Burton, a face hidden from the multitude
until now.
Melvyn Bragg, allowed free access to the never-
before-revealed Burton private notebooks, and
with the cooperation offriends who’ve never
spoken about him before, has brought together
the private and the public sides for the first time.
RICH is the complete Richard Burton:
a revelation.
‘Richard Burton was the perfect man’ –From the Notebooks of Marlene Deitrich
‘Thanks to Melvyn Bragg’s wholly admirable book, he
will be reborn to many as a lovable, suffering, complex
human being’ — Anthony Burgess, The Independent
‘An impressive achievement which appears destined
to become that rare creature, a literary and a
popular success’ –The Mail on Sunday
‘Fascinating … Will be deservedly successful as an
honourable record of a man and of a time’ –Maeve Binchy, the Irish Times
719 pages
Paperback
In good preloved condition with minor creasing on front cover