THE PATH TO PARADISE

The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola s decades long dream to reinvent American film making if not the entire world Supremely entertaining New York Times Mouth watering Sizzingly vivid and compulsive Daily Telegraph Acclaimed writer Sam Wasson weaves together an extraordinary portrait of Coppola having conducted hundreds of interviews with the director and those who have worked closely with him A man who is charming brilliant but also plagued by restlessness recklessness and a desire to operate perpetually at the extremes It is a story inextricably bound up in the making of one of the greatest quixotic masterpieces ever attempted Apocalypse Now That story already the stuff of legend has never been fully told until this extraordinary book