The Way I Was

by Marvin Hamlisch

Book Overview

The EGOT-winning composer of The Way We Were and A Chorus Line recounts his remarkable life from childhood to Broadway and Hollywood. The son of Jewish Viennese immigrants, six-year-old Marvin... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684193272
• ISBN13: 9780684193274
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable

A very enjoyable read. I devoured it in one sitting, as it speeds along in a no-nonsence fashion. Mr. Hamlisch is candid but gentle in his critique of his career and life. As an A CHORUS LINE fan i particularly loved his diary extracts from 1974 on the creation of this show (the only part of the book that involves a diary.) You only don't have to agree with him about his assertions of his musical JEAN to enjoy his observations. My only cavil being that the final chapters about his love-life are a little bit sugary. If only he had updated this book with his recent endeavours as this book was published in 1992. A good read!