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Praise for The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock A New York Times Editors‘ Choice "A provocative new way of thinking about biography. . . . The radial structure vibrates, like Hitchcock‘s best films, with intuition and mystery." - Parul Sehgal, New York Times "The great strength of The Twelve Lives is that a reader comes away from it with a vivid sense of how Hitchcock ignited screen masterpieces with the fires of his inner discord and contradictions." - Alexander Kafka, Washington Post "Full of such sharp observations, offering a Hitchcock whose art endures alongside-and in some ways depends upon-his insecurities and mistakes." - Farran Smith Nehme, Wall Street Journal "White‘s book is a perceptive, plainspoken, and vigorous portrait of an exceedingly strange, complicated, and perhaps deeply wounded man." - John Banville, The New Republic "Thoughtful and nuanced. . . . Grasps Hitchcock‘s enduring hold on our aspirations and our fears." - Glenn Frankel, Washington Post "Perceptive and gracefully written, The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock is a bracing study of the master of suspense. . . . It is a rare book that could pleasurably be twice as long." - The Economist "Masterly." - The Times [UK]