The Dark Side of Genius - The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

Collins, London,1983, Hardback with slightly tatty DW.
This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcocks long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of the directors obsessions with blondes, food, murder, and idealized loveand he traces the incomparable, bizarre genius from Hitchcocks English childhood through the golden years of his career in America as one of the greatest directors in the history of filmmaking.