Life's Work
15 September 2022Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
I feel like I'm on a boat sailing to some island where I don't know anybody. I'm on a boat someone is operating and we aren't in touch.
So begins David Milch's urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch's life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon....
Details
15 September 2022571 minutes
David Milch, Michael Harney
9781035005666Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Thought-provoking reflections on existenceIndependent
A book full of riches [..] to fuel the reader’s creativity, full of insight into the way real art can be made, even in the most trying circumstancesNew Statesman
A brilliant, emotional memoir and hymn to television screenwritingMail on Sunday
Life’s Work is one of the best books about television I’ve read. It’s funny, discursive, literate, druggy, self-absorbed, fidgety, replete with intense perceptions… You finish feeling you’ve really met someone. Milch was his own best creationDwight Garner, The New York Times
