Boy on a String: From Cast-Off Kid to Filmmaker through the Magic of Dreams – Hardcover-Fast Shipping

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by
Joseph Jacoby (Author),
Martin Scorsese (Introduction by)

JOSEPH JACOBY, Director-Screenwriter-Producer-Novelist, and NYU Film School classmate of Martin Scorsese, began his career as a writer-creator of game shows and as a professional puppeteer. Jacoby, who went on to become a pioneering filmmaker, has until now never revealed that most of his early years were spent as a ward of the state. He survived a childhood shadowed by his mother’s unpredictable and dangerous behavior, which forced friends to commit her. Jacoby then grew up in seven foster homes in Brooklyn, and two , propelled by the power of his dreams, Jacoby went on to realize his passion for the moving image and made his first theatrcial motion picture at the age of twenty-seven.

This is the moving story of what a person can achieve, without regard to so-called reason, facts, or the odds. It will be cherished by everyone concerned about neglected children, and by readers searching for an inspirational true story.

Number of Pages: 370Dimensions: 0.88 x 9 x 6 INIllustrated: YesPublication Date: June 18, 2020