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Me and Orson Welles

By Robert Kaplow

October 03, 2003
ISBN: 1-931561-49-4 
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 278
Price: $18.50


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About the Book

“This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles’s pajamas. It was the week I fell in love. And it was the week I changed my middle name—twice.”

So begins Me and Orson Welles, a comic coming-of-age novel set against the background of the twenty-two-year-old Orson Welles’s debut production at the Mercury Theatre on Broadway in 1937. Richard Samuels is the stage-struck seventeen-year-old from New Jersey who wanders onto the set one day and gets a small role in Welles’s Julius Caesar. His life will never be the same….