Jack Nicholson has lived large on and off the screen. Patrick
McGilligan, one of America's outstanding film biographers, has plumbed
research and interviews to expand his definitive biography since its
publication twenty years ago. Jack's Life captures the essence of this
most private and public of stars with a vivid depiction of Nicholson's
tangled Dickensian upbringing, his hungry years as actor and writer, his
nearaccidental breakthrough in Easy Rider, and his prolificacy and
artistry ever since, with roles in Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The
Shining, A Few Good Men, As Good As It Gets, and The Departed, to
name a beloved handful of his sixty-plus films. McGilligan captures the
life and legacy of this unabashed and complex personality