Mr Wilder and Me - Wednesdays from 26th June

Description

Highlights

Practise and develop in this 5 week upper-intermediate online English book club course featuring Mr Wilder and Me by best selling author Jonathan Coe. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

This story set in the late 1970s, describes Hollywood director Billy Wilder's difficulties in writing, financing and shooting his penultimate film Fedora. We see the story through the eyes of a young Greek interpreter - young Calista Frangopoulou who finds herself working for Billy Wilder on a Greek film set.

Unable to attract the required finance from Hollywood, Wilder realises that he is no longer the star director that he once was. Consequently they head to Munich to finish the film with German money, and here they embark on a journey into the dark secrets of his family history.
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'Utterly charming, deeply poignant and ultimately uplifting' Mail on Sunday

'Sweeps beautifully from Hollywood to Greece and London' FT, Best Books of 2020

'The dialogue's sharp, the comic timing excellent' Sunday Times

Geoff says:

"This is both a tender coming-of-age story and a close portrayal of a Hollywood icon, exploring the nature of time and fame, of family and the pull of nostalgia."