Brando - Peter Manso (First UK edition)

From his childhood as the son of alcoholic, philandering parents, through his wild days in the 1950s and 1960s as the most fêted screen actor in the world, to his recent public battering when his oldest son killed his favourite daughter’s boyfriend, Marlon Brando has lived a life beset by personal demons. Behind the myth and the barbed wire, beneath his immense fame and fortune, he is a troubled man, known intimately by only a few.

In this book, for the first time Brando is unveiled, from the height of his extraordinary talent to the depths of his despair: his sexual compulsions, the endless years of psychotherapy, the recurrent eating disorders, his notorious psychological manipulations, the girlfriends who have attempted suicide, the love/hate relationships with his children, his sporadic involvement in radical politics, and his controversial seclusion in Tahiti – the idyll that turned into a nightmare.  

Peter Manso’s biography contains the secrets that Brando himself has never told. For a life marked by evasion, self-delusion and indulgence of every kind, this book is the last word.