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In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, embarked on an ambitious project. Stern reached out to Newman's family, friends and close associates and interviewed them about the actor's life, with Newman giving his own perspective on the story. The only stipulation was that whoever spoke was completely honest. The stipulation also applied to Newman himself. They worked on the project for five years.
The result is an extraordinary memoir, unlike the usual star biographies, with a literary sophistication, an excitingly written text, compiled from thousands of pages of interview transcripts. Newman's voice is extremely powerful: sometimes funny, sometimes painful, but above all, brutally honest. Additional voices - childhood friends, comrades in the navy, family members, film and theater colleagues such as Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, Martin Ritt or John Huston - enrich, color and contextualize Newman's story.
Newman recounts in brilliant detail his traumatic childhood, his teenage insecurities, his youthful failures with women, his rise to stardom, his early rivals (Marlon Brando and James Dean), his first marriage, his alcoholism, the death of his son Scott, and his desire for his daughters to understand the truth about their father. . Perhaps the most moving part of the book is about Joanne's relationship with Woodward - their deep love for each other, and how Joanne shaped her husband intellectually, emotionally and sensually, while supporting him in every situation.
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is revealing and self-analytical, loving and honest, complex and deep writing, which reveals one of the greatest film stars of our time in a new light, the man admired by many but known by few.

"I wanted to put things on paper and put them in their place, destroy the legend that had grown on my head, dispel some myths and keep the piranhas away. I wanted to document my life on this planet, preferably with the need for accuracy. Because everything that has been written about me so far is nowhere near it to reality.
That's my only goal with this book."
- Paul Newman