Billy Connolly - Couverture rigide

Stephenson, Pamela

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 000711091X ISBN 13 : 9780007110919

Editeur : HarperCollins Entertainment, 2001

Synopsis

Whatever your opinion of Billy Connolly, his life has been an epic tale of controversy and hilarity, tragedy and comedy. From his working class roots in Glasgow he has worked his way to the top, and now enjoys huge worldwide acclaim and lives a dream lifestyle. From welding to folk singing to comedy to writing to acting, Billy has proved beyond doubt his versatility and sheer determination. And if anyone knows that better than him, its his wife, Pamela, who will give us an insiders view of this hugely talented musician, singer, tv presenter, comdedian and actor. We will hear about the highs and the lows, the good times and the bad and she will take us behind-the-scenes of the films and tv shows he has been in and the sell-out tours that are so unmissable so that we get to see something of the real Billy Connolly.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A favorite of American audiences, Billy Connolly, who now lives in Los Angeles, is the outrageous comedian whose unsurpassed comedic talent has won him countless fans. Billy, the revelatory, poignant, and wildly entertaining biography is written by the woman who knows him best—his wife.

With insight and objectivity, Pamela Stephenson, a clinical psychologist, 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 Angela's Ashes as she tells of the troubled, abused. and desperately poor child in the docklands of Glasgow who grew up to shock and awe 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 Mrs. Brown , and the star of the U.S. television show Head of the Class.

Revue de presse :

"Billy Connolly is my inspiration." — –Eddie Izzard

"Billy Connolly is quite simply the most successful popular British stand-up comedian of modern times." — –The Guardian

"A triumph of the will, an Angela’s Ashes with punch lines." — –Publishers Weekly

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Entertainment
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 000711091X
• ISBN 13: 9780007110919
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304