Higgins Colin - Harold And Maude - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Nineteen - year - old Harold Chasen is obsessed with death. He fakes suicides to shock his self - obsessed mother drives a hearse and attends funerals of complete strangers. Seventy - nine - year - old Maude Chardin on the other hand adores life. She liberates trees from city sidewalks and transplants them to the forest paints smiles on the faces of church statues and borrows cars to remind their owners that life is fleeting here today gone tomorrow! A chance meeting between the two turns into a madcap whirlwind romance and Harold learns that life is worth living and how to play the banjo. Harold and Maude started as Colin Higgins's master's thesis at UCL a film school before being made into the 1971 film directed by Hal Ashby. The quirky dark comedy gained a loyal cult following and in 1997 it was selected for inclusion on the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Higgins's novelization was released with the original film but has been out of print for more than thirty years. Fans who have seen the movie dozens of times will find this a valuable companion as it gives fresh elements to watch for and answers many of the film's unresolved questions.
Title: Harold And Maude
Author(s): Higgins Colin
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Barcode: 9781613731260
Pages: 144 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 5/1/2015
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction