BOOKS
PATH TO PARADISE: A FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA STORY
I LOVE THE SMELL OF A NEW COPPOLA BOOK IN THE MORNING
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AUTHOR SAM WASSON
THESE DAYS, FRANCIS Ford Coppola — aged 84 — is rightly regarded as one of the veteran survivors of the wild and wildly creative ’70s Hollywood, an American golden age of the movies. In the new book from writer and historian Sam Wasson, Path To Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story, Wasson unpicks the mythic director of The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, moving toward a fuller understanding of the man, his life and his career with exclusive material and interviews from the artist himself. Sculpting a subjective journey through the many triumphs and tribulations of Coppola and his work, Path To Paradise is not intended to be a stodgy chronological biography. You can take a hint from the fact Wasson makes a dig at an authoritative view, in calling it “A Francis Ford Coppola Story” and not “The Francis Ford Coppola Story”.