The author describes his divorce, its effects on his life, and his irrational plunge into the stock market madness of the high-tech boom, discussing his own motives in terms of the simultaneous greed that consumed the nation.
David Denby Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
1. január 1943
David Denby je americký novinár a filmový kritik, ktorého diela sa vyznačujú bystrým analytickým pohľadom na filmové umenie. Jeho písanie sa ponára do hĺbky filmových diel a skúma ich kultúrny a spoločenský dopad. Denbyho prístup je známy svojou premyslenosťou a schopnosťou spojiť filmovú kritiku so širším kultúrnym kontextom. Jeho recenzie sú cenené pre svoju inteligenciu a prenikavosť.
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