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What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed
Robert Sellers
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Description for What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed
Paperback. The authorised biography of Oliver Reed, one of Britain's best loved actors. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 476.
Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons.
For the first time Reed's close family has agreed to collaborate on a project about the man himself. The result is a fascinating new insight into a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472112637
SKU
V9781472112637
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Ref
99-50
About Robert Sellers
Robert Sellers is the author of the bestselling Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed and Hollywood Hellraisers. He has also written biographies on Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, a history of the George Harrison/Monty Python film company HandMade, and the ... Read more
Reviews for What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed
This is a brilliant and beguiling account of Reed’s life and times
Mail on Sunday
There is a great feeling of loss and tragedy at the core of Sellers’s biography. He is unflinching in the depiction of how awful Reed could be, but balances that with a strong sense of the love and affection he inspired in those ... Read more
Mail on Sunday
There is a great feeling of loss and tragedy at the core of Sellers’s biography. He is unflinching in the depiction of how awful Reed could be, but balances that with a strong sense of the love and affection he inspired in those ... Read more