Between Lives

by Donald Newlove

The late Patrick O’Neal sat companionably for many taped interviews about his dual careers as restaurateur and actor. From these I fashion Between Lives. He read and supported an early draft of this work. Patrick spoke with the greatest respect for Sir John Gielgud, who supported him in the insupportable Assignment to Kill, “even though I had the Rembrandt lighting.” Readers of Between Lives who would like to see Patrick and Sir John together beyond my novella must scan the late night video listings for one of this melodrama’s rare showings. But be Sir John never lists it in his film credits, although he gives a wonderful Sidney Greenstreet guffaw to one of Patrick’s Bogeyish lines.

102 pages, Paperback

Published July 6, 2018

About the author

Donald Newlove was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1928, and currently lives in New York City's Greenwich Village. As a reporter, book reviewer, and short story writer, his work appeared in Esquire, New York Magazine, Evergreen Review, and The Saturday Review. His first novel, The Painter Gabriel (1970), was hailed by Time Magazine as "one of the best fictional studies of madness, descent, and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Newlove is the author of several other novels, a series of books on the art of writing, and the critically acclaimed memoir, Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers (1981).