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In this remarkable book, William Boyd provides the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exciting existence as you of the very unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth-century is equivalent components Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson Davies, and Saul Bellow, and 100 percentage William Boyd.  From his start in 1899, Todd was condemned. Rising from his worry-filled youth, he pushes in to the throes of the twentieth-century on the Western Front throughout the Great War, and rapidly changes his part on the battlefield from canon fodder to cameraman. When he becomes a prisoner of war, he finds Rousseau's Confessions, and dedicates his life to getting the memoir for the big screen. Affected by misfortune and blind goal, Todd becomes a famous London upstart, a Weimar luminary, and lastly an unhappy overseer of rubbish films and the eleventh person in the Hollywood Ten.