Summary
An extraordinary recreation of one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel & Hardy.
Winner of the 2017 Ryan Tubridy Show Listener’s Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards.
John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists.
An extraordinary reimagining of the life of one of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473663664 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473663660 |
| Author: | John Connolly |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 26 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Rewarding and uplifting. Connolly has stepped outside the crime genre to publish a literary novel of real merit.
A fine novel. - The Sunday Times
This is a book about love: love of women, love of men, love of art, love of comedy … What catapults the reader straight into Hollywood’s Golden Age is the enormous amount of research and passion that lies behind He. When those researched details coalesce, a world of Dickens-like detail leaps off the page. - Irish TimesIt’s not often you get an evocation of a friendship so deep and tender between two men in fiction … A wonderful story of love, of an abiding loyalty. - RTEAn entertaining account of early 20th-century celebrity - Daily ExpressPart-biography, part-cinema history, part-Hollywood gossip columns … the ingredients all stirred dexterously together by a highly - even bizarrely - individual narrative hand … Wildly original in its methods, it is addictively readable in its outcome - Sydney Morning HeraldThe life and art of Stan Laurel, from vaudeville and silent movies to the talkies and old age, is explored in this artful novel … It’s the best tribute to this novel that by the end of it you feel you have been given the full texture of a life. - Kirkus ReviewsFans of Connolly will be awed at this new literary work in a very different voice - Florida Times-UnionAn invaluable feel for a period and a fascinating, if awkward personality. Writing the story as a novel rather than just a straight biography gives the tale an extra layer of humanity and reality. - Crime TimeAbout The Author
John Connolly
John Connolly is the author of the Charlie Parker mysteries, The Book of Lost Things, the Samuel Johnson novels for young adults and, with his partner, Jennifer Ridyard, the co-author of the Chronicles of the Invaders. His debut - EVERY DEAD THING - swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers, and all his subsequent novels have been Sunday Times bestsellers. He was the first non-American writer to win the US Shamus award, and the first Irish writer to be awarded the Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America.
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