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The "quack" who saved a king... Featuring a star-studded
cast of Academy Award® winners and nominees, The
King's Speech won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
People's Choice Award and is generating plenty of Oscar buzz.
This official film tie-in is written by London Sunday Times
journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue--grandson of Lionel
Logue, one of the movie's central characters. It's the eve of
World War II, and King Edward VIII has abdicated the throne of
England to marry the woman he loves. Never has the nation
needed a leader more. But the new monarch, George VI--father of
today's Queen Elizabeth II--is painfully shy and cursed with a
terrible stammer. How can he inspire confidence in his
countrymen when he cannot even speak to them? Help arrives in
speech therapist Logue, who not only is a commoner, but
Australian to boot. Will he be able to give King George his
voice? The King's Speech tells an inspiring tale of triumph
over adversity and the unlikely friendship between a reluctant
king and the charismatic subject who saved the
throne. 作者简介 · · · ·
· · Peter Conradi's books include The Red
Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer,
Mad Vlad: Vladimir Zhirinovksy and the New Russian Nationalism,
and Hitler's Piano Player.
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