Rewrites A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

Barefoot in the Recreation area, The Odd Few, The Sunshine Kids — Neil Simon’s plays and films have kept many thousands of people laughing for almost four years. Today he’s recognized not only as the most effective American playwright of all time, but also as one of the greatest.

A lot more than the humor, however, it is the mankind of Neil Simon’s vision that has made him America’s most beloved playwright and earned him such enduring achievement. Today, in Rewrites, he has created a funny, deeply coming in contact with about Rewrites A Memoir memoir, filled up with information and anecdotes from the composing life and rich with the personal experiences that underlie his work. The actual listener of this warm, nostalgic memoir discovers, nevertheless, would be that the has, although grounded in Neil Simon’s personal experience, provide just a glimpse into the mind and soul of this very private man.

Since Come Blow Your Horn first opened on Broadway in 1960, few months have passed without the looks of another of his laughter-filled plays, and indeed on numerous events two or more of his works have been jogging concurrently. But his success was something Neil Simon by no means took for granted, nor was the skill to make laughter something that he ever treated carelessly: it had taken too much time for him to achieve the kind of acceptance — both popular and vital — that he craved, and the path he followed often was pitted with hard decisions.

A number of the helping players in the memoir include Sid Caesar, Jerry Lewis, Walter Matthau, Robert Redford, Gwen Verdon, Bob Fosse, George C. Scott, and Mike Nichols. But often at middle stage is certainly his first like, his wife Joan, whose death in the first seventies devastated him, and whose love and motivation illuminate this amazing and exposing self-portrait.

Rewrites is rich in laughter and feelings, and filled with the recollections of a sometimes nice, sometimes bittersweet lifestyle.