Billy - Softcover

Stephenson, Pamela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060537310 ISBN 13: 9780060537319

Verlag: Harper Paperbacks, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

<p><b>Life, love, pain, fame, fear, rage, and guts.</b></p><p>Just what is it about Billy Connolly and four-letter words? Read the book that's breaking international sales records and find out.</p><p>Now a favorite of American audiences, Billy Connolly is the outrageous comedian whose unsurpassed comedic talent has won him countless fans. <i>Billy</i>, the revelatory, poignant, and wildly entertaining biography is written by the woman who knows him best -- his wife.</p><p>With insight and objectivity, Pamela Stephenson, a psychologist and Billy's wife of ten years, takes us through the heartbreaking and hilarious life of a comic legend and what made him the man he is today. The descriptions of Scottish life evoke the poignancy of the Ireland in <i>Angela's Ashes</i> as she tells of the troubled and desperately poor child in the docklands of Glasgow who grew up to captivate audiences around the world with his notoriously bawdy humor and a remarkable range of performances as a brilliant comic, a serious actor who played opposite Dame Judi Dench in <i>Mrs. Brown</i>, and the star of the U.S. television show <i>Head of the Class</i>.</p>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harper Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0060537310
• ISBN 13: 9780060537319
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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