Turnaround: A Memoir

The acclaimed film director Milos Forman was orphaned in a small Czechoslovakian town during WW2: he was 8 years old when his father was taken by the Gestapo & 10 when his mother was taken away as well. Much of his subsequent life was spent living out of a suitcase & nurturing his dream of making films. When he came to New York, his international reputation was secured with Taking Off, Hair, Ragtime, Valmont, & especially Amadeus, & One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, both of which won Oscars for Best Director & Best Picture of the Year. This frank memoir brings the traumatic experience of Eastern Europe in this century to life & takes the reader inside the very process of artistic creation. Ill.