Unlike most Hollywood autobiographies the book is not an "as-told-to" story but Quinn's own experiment in an autobiographical form that reads something like a first-person, confessional screenplay, complete with a cast of characters from his past, including the "Boy"--an adolescent alter ego, an eleven-year-old double who is the voice of a culturally different, socially marginalized childhood that makes Quinn's movement into the upper strata of American society uncertain and painful. Quinn, rather than enjoying his success, was anguished by his early family life and guilt-ridden by his jealous mistreatment of various women who were kind toward him. As the psychiatrist, introduced early into the autobiography, reflects, Quinn is like the classic character he played in the Federico Fellini film
La Strada, a loveless, joyless man, who "felt the immensity of space" only after he had wantonly destroyed the love offered to him.
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