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Character Breakdown
Book profileEnglish (United Kingdom)
Book · 3 editions

Character Breakdown

2019
first published
English
language
3
edition in English
320
pages

'Entertaining... revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS Actor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of today's world Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has played many different roles, from 'cute little girl' to 'assassin with attitude', Oscar Wilde's Salome to St Trinian's schoolgirl by way of Fresh Meat's Vod. In Character Breakdown , Zawe scrolls through a version of her life. Or is it a version of her art? Or something in between. In it, she encounters glamour, horror, absurdity and questions like: is a life spent more on performance than reality any life at all? 'Smart, funny, vivid, honest, dark, timely' The Times 'A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz' Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as one her 20 books by Black British Womxn Writers

Editions

3 editions · sort: newest
Character BreakdownCharacter BreakdownVintage978-17-8470-338-797817847033872020-02-06English (United Kingdom)320Softcover
Character BreakdownCharacter Breakdownvintage_digitalread by Zawe Ashton978-14-7356-899-097814735689902020-02-06English (United Kingdom)—Audiobook · 6 h 19 min
Character BreakdownCharacter Breakdownvintage_digital978-14-7352-489-797814735248972019-04-04English (United Kingdom)—E-book