From under the truck A memoir
Book - 2024
"From Josh Brolin, a unique and decidedly un-celebrity memoir, by turns affecting, funny, uncanny, and unforgettable. Weaving a latticework of different strands, moving back and forth through time, Josh Brolin captures a life marked by curiosity, pain, devotion, kindness, humor. He recounts an unconventional childhood far from Hollywood. Raised on a ranch in Paso Robles, California, he was surrounded as a child by the wolves, cougars, and other wild animals gathered by his fearless and explosive mother, Jane Agee Brolin. Her tragic, early death haunts this book, and the force of her unforgettable personality is felt throughout. Brolin also brings to life his career in the film industry--from his breakout role in The Goonies to the set ...of No Country for Old Men--and the professional and personal ups and downs in between and since. With unflinching honesty but also great humor, he shares insights into relationships, addiction, love, and fatherhood, while letting the white space in between words speak for itself. Grappling with the mysteries of life and death in a way that will catch readers by surprise, From Under the Truck is an audacious and riveting memoir from a born writer"--
- Subjects
- MEMOIR > AVENGERS > SCANDAL > HOLLYWOOD STORIES > BARBRA STREISAND > GIFT > ENTERTAINMENT > SELF > DIANE LANE > MOVIE STAR > DUNE > NEPO BABY > WOMAN > FAMOUS > 2024 RELEASES > AMERICAN ACTOR > FROM UNDER THE TRUCK > DISHY > AUTOBIOGRAPHY > ART
- Genres
- Autobiographies
Biographies - Published
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780063382183
9780063382206
- Prologue: It Claws at Me
- 2023: Life with Jane was Tumultuous
- Up Until 1987, 1997, and 2013: I was Born to Drink
- 1968: My Father Often Tells the Story
- 1979: First Time I Went to a Drive-In
- 1981: He was in the Room Next to Mine
- 1984 and 2006: the Goonies and No Country for Old Men
- 1972 (A Children's Story): Once Upon a Time
- 1990: The Prison Where Gary Gilmore was Executed
- 2004 (Cocoon): I'll Drink Wine Out of a Glass
- 1988: "I'm Having a Baby"
- 2020: I've Been on a Plane
- 1975: My Father Used to Drive Up
- 2005 (Fame Becomes Us): There was the Famous Writer
- 2007: Fade in: Int. a Light Red Room
- 1987: I'm Really Starting to Feel
- February 12, 1995: I Got a Phone Call Tonight
- 2018: I'm Watching Pink and Blue
- 2006 (A Letter): Dearest Wally
- 2021 (Santa Fe): the Cherry Blossoms have Exploded
- 2020: There is Nothing Worse than Witnessing
- 1976: It's Cold
- 2023: My Face is on Fire
- 2004: We Were Drinking Grappa
- 1991: First Drink in Three and a Half Years
- 1992: This Morning I'm Barely Able to Keep
- 2000: She had Been Away for Six Weeks
- 2016: It's Late in the Morning
- 1975: Every Weekend When We were Kids
- 2001: Ramona Became More My Brother's Mom
- 2022: When I Put her Goggles on
- 1997: My Son and Daughter Sit Close
- 1981: I Don't Remember What Day It was
- 2003: What are My Favorite Flowers
- 2018: I Picked Up the Phone
- 2006: Between Shots During the First Film
- 1976: My Mom Loved the Palomino Club
- 1990 (Portland, Oregon): I'm Walking Through Old Town's Slums
- 1992: I Live in New York City
- 2013: It's Late and She's Drunk
- 1989: I Have a Tweed Coat on
- 2021: Divorces have Come and Gone
- 2003: I Went Down to the Piazza Every Morning
- 1973: Why Do We Have to Leave?
- 1999-2000: My Girlfriend was Getting Minor Surgery
- 1992: It's on a Wall Somewhere
- 2006: The El Camino Motel
- 1995: It Started with Cutting Off My Thumb
- 2022: I Am Grateful
- 1993: Most People are Sitting on the Subway
- 1977: My Brother and I Sleep in Two Twin Beds
- 1992: Every Day She Wore Dirty White
- 1982: Rocky Galenti's it was Called
- 2006 (Summer): I was Staying in the El Camino
- 2020: At the Playground Today
- 1974: I Am Waking Up
- 2008: I was in the Greenwich Hotel
- The Man on his Bum: a Young Boy was Walking
- 1986: It Usually Starts Soon After
- 2021: Everyone is Still Asleep
- 2002: I Went to Prison in Beaumont, Texas
- 2015 (Death): He Walked Into the Chapel
- 2021: The Overcooked and Stale Green-Chili Apple Fritter
- 2019: She's Dreaming
- 2009?: "My Name is Barbra"
- 1991: I'd Half-Consciously Constructed
- 2008: It is Quiet this Morning
- 2022: We are Trying to Create Stronger Boundaries
- 2023: I Should've Taken Everything
- 1976/1995/2021: Birds are Chirping Wildly Outside
- 2018: There it was Again, That Silence
- 2023 (Reema): She Made it So She Could Travel
- 2023: the Sea Reminds Me of Her
- Acknowledgments