A Life in Parts, Bryan Cranston
A Life in Parts, Bryan Cranston
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A Life in Parts

Bestseller

Author: Bryan Cranston

Narrator: Bryan Cranston

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/11/2016


Synopsis

Winner of the 2017 Audie Award for Narration by the Author

“Nothing short of riveting...an engrossing first-person account by one of our finest actors” (Huffington Post)—both a coming-of-age story and a meditation on creativity, devotion, and craft—Bryan Cranston, beloved and acclaimed star of one of history’s most successful TV shows, Breaking Bad.

Bryan Cranston began his acting career at the age of seven, when his father, a struggling actor and sometime director, cast him in a commercial for United Way. By fifth grade he was starring in the school play, spending hours at the local movie theater, and re-enacting favorite scenes with his brother in their living room. Cranston seemed destined to be an actor. But then his father left. And his family fell apart. Troubled by his father’s missteps, Cranston abandoned his acting aspirations and resolved to pursue a steadier career in law enforcement. Then, on a two-year cross-country motorcycle journey, Cranston re-discovered his talent for acting and found his mission and his calling.

In this “must-read memoir” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Cranston traces the many roles he inhabited throughout his remarkable life, both on and off screen. For the first time he shares the story of his early years as an actor on the soap opera Loving, his recurring spots on Seinfeld, and his time as bumbling father Hal on Malcolm in the Middle, to his tour-de-force, Tony-winning performance as Lyndon Baines Johnson in Broadway’s All the Way, to his most iconic role of all: Breaking Bad’s Walter White.

“An illuminating window into the actor’s psyche” (People), Cranston has much to say about creativity, devotion, and craft, as well as innate talent and its challenges and benefits and proper maintenance. “By turns gritty, funny, and sad” (Entertainment Weekly), ultimately A Life in Parts is a story about the joy, the necessity, and the transformative power of simple hard work.

About Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston won four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Walter White in AMC’s Breaking Bad. He holds the honor of being the first actor in a cable series, and the second lead actor in the history of the Emmy Awards, to receive three consecutive wins. In 2014 he won a Tony Award for his role as Lyndon Johnson in the bio-play All the Way. In film, Cranston received an Academy Award nomination for his leading role in Trumbo. Among his numerous television and film appearances, he was nominated for a Golden Globe and three Emmys for his portrayal of Hal in FOX’s Malcolm in the Middle. He is the author of A Life in Parts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Donna on January 19, 2022

Take notes Tina Fey and the rest of you famous people writing memoirs. This is how it's done. Scratch that. Bow down people of earth. BOW DOWN! Heisenberg lives! Bravo Bryan Cranston. BRAVO! Exceptional! As far as celebrity memoirs go this book is a solid 5 stars.* Can someone please take this iPad fr......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on October 05, 2022

I was, I think, unaware of Cranston until my son encouraged me to watch the opening episode of Breaking Bad. I was instantly hooked and watched the whole thing - all 62 episodes - in the course of the next month or so. I was captivated by its strange but compelling storyline and I found the performa......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on December 17, 2022

Fantastic memoir by Bryan Cranston! Highly recommend! Cranston's life has been filled with various speed bumps, such as his parent's divorce, poverty, making a living killing chickens and selling newspapers no one wanted. He dates a woman with serious mental illness who refuses to break up with him. H......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on April 12, 2020

This was hands down the best celebrity memoir I’ve listened to. I highly recommend going the audiobook route for this. I assume it would be great in print but the audiobook is the only way to go, in my opinion.......more

Goodreads review by Nina (ninjasbooks) on December 28, 2022

At first I thought this book wouldn’t be for me. There were too many tales of pranks and bad childhood behavior. The prose was ordinary and I thought the book might be more suited for fans. But as I continued I started to get interested in Cranston’s journey. He matured over time and I liked how he......more