{"product_id":"book-docf","title":"This Is Not My Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The iconic stage director, writer, actor, and founder of The Manhattan Project, a 1960s-70s avant-garde theater company, delivers smart, clever observations with an actor's perfect timing. From harsh beginnings-never sentimentalized-to a series of adventures-sometimes funny, sometimes not-listening to Gregory is pure delight.\" -\u003ci\u003eAudioFile Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003eEarphones Award winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis program is read by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of \u003ci\u003eMy Dinner with André\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Not My Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theater director, writer, and actor. For the first time, André shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of \u003ci\u003eMy Dinner with André\u003c\/i\u003e. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not My Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the listener from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is Not My Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e is a collaboration between André and Todd London, who together create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life?  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49367411425584,"sku":"BDdocf","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/docf-cover.jpg?v=1761000204","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-docf","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}