Fictional Selves – Kampanjpris

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the beloved actor and star of Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and Sex and the City comes a candid and deeply personal memoir.’Charming, self-effacing, completely authentic, and slyly wise’ Ethan Hawke’Fascinating and insightful…big-hearted and revealing…I loved this book’ Carrie Brownstein’Enjoyable’ The Sunday Times ’Intelligent, wry, inquisitive’ The New York Times ’Like MacLachlan himself: full of unexpected depth and self-doubt, funny’ GQ’Doesnt pull punches’ Rolling Stone ’Moving, honest and often hilarious’ Woman’s OwnIn this highly anticipated memoir, Kyle MacLachlan shares the funny, moving and utterly original story of his offbeat journey through Hollywood, the roles that shaped him and the making of a cult icon.Plucked from obscurity to star in David Lynchs Dune, MacLachlan went on to deliver a startling performance in Blue Velvet before taking on his career-defining role as Agent Dale Cooper in the TV phenomenon Twin Peaks. From critical acclaim to the infamousand unforgettableShowgirls, his career has been anything but predictable.Fictional Selves is a book of doppelgangers, with MacLachlan mirrored by his own prodding ego (Other Kyle), the iconic characters he inhabited, and the ones that eluded his grasp but gave him a profound and surprising lens onto himself as a person and a performer. Along the way, he offers candid insights into collaborators including David Lynch, Laura Dern, Dennis Hopper and Anthony Hopkins, and shares lessons learned about fear, fame, ambition, love and fatherhood.Playful, self-aware and revealing, this is the remarkable story of one of Hollywoods most distinctive and enduring actors..