To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

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By Rupert Everett · Paperback
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Follow Rupert Everett’s ten-year quest to film Oscar Wilde’s last days, weaving European travels with stories from his own life.

'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times

'Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes his attention' Observer

Rupert Everett tells the story of how he set out to make a film of Oscar Wilde's last days, and how that ten-year quest almost destroyed him. (And everyone else.)

Travelling across Europe for the film, he weaves in extraordinary tales from his past, remembering wild times, freak encounters and lost friends. There are celebrities, of course. But we also meet glamorous but doomed Aunt Peta, who introduces Rupert (aged three) to the joys of make-up. In '90s Paris, his great friend Lychee burns bright, and is gone. While in '70s London, a 'weirdly tall, beyond size zero' teenage Rupert is expelled from the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Unflinchingly honest and hugely entertaining, To the End of the World offers a unique insight into the 'snakes and ladders' of filmmaking. It is also a soulful and thought-provoking autobiography from one of our best-loved and most talented actors and writers.

Publisher: Abacus

ISBN: 9780349139784

Pages: 352

Dimensions: 126 × 196 mm

Language: English

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