Al Pacino is opening up about his upbringing and life in Hollywood like by no means earlier than in his upcoming memoir “Sonny Boy,” set to launch this October.

The legendary 83 year-old actor, identified for his roles in iconic movies akin to “The Godfather” trilogy, “Scarface” and “Panic in Needle Park,” will write about his childhood within the South Bronx, together with his time at New York’s storied Excessive Faculty of Performing Arts, his adolescence within the the town’s theater scene all through the ’60s and ’70s and at last his large Hollywood break.

In a press release, writer Penguin Press described the textual content as a “memoir of a person who has nothing left to worry and nothing left to cover. All the good roles, the important collaborations, and the necessary relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce on the highest ranges.”

“The guide’s golden thread, nevertheless, is the spirit of affection and function,” the assertion continued. “Love can fail you, and you may be defeated in your ambitions – the identical lights that shine shiny may dim. However Al Pacino was fortunate sufficient to fall deeply in love with a craft earlier than he had the foggiest thought of any of its earthly rewards, and he by no means fell out of affection. That has made all of the distinction.”

“I wrote ‘Sonny Boy’ to precise what I’ve seen and been by way of in my life,” Pacino instructed Individuals upon the announcement. “It has been an extremely private and revealing expertise to mirror on this journey and what performing has allowed me to do and the worlds it has opened up.”

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