Daniel Day-Lewis: The Fire Within

by Garry Jenkins

Book Overview

A biography of award-winning film star Daniel Day-Lewis offers an intimate look at a private celebrity that explores his relationship with his famous father, strict boarding school education, elusive romantic attachments, and life lived among the rich and famous.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312130449
• ISBN13: 9780312130442
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive yet lacks the spirit of the person

Garry Jenkins has written a thorough book on the life of a man who is, arguably,one of the greatest thespian talents in modern times; however, it is obviously without input from its subject, Daniel Day-Lewis. This book does give interesting detail of the romance of Day-Lewis' parents, (his father was Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis; his mother, a member of the Balcon family theater dynasty), as well as the story of the actor's odd aristocratic upbringing. The rest is merely information that a fan could have gleaned from various media resources, especially entertainment magazines. In Jenkins' defense, Daniel Day-Lewis, just turned forty, is very much a developing subject. The author, currently writing a sequel, is fortunate in that respect