What Fresh Lunacy is This? by Robert Sellers - ISBN: 9781472112637
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Behind the brawls and booze, uncover the real Oliver Reed.

What Fresh Lunacy is This?

The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed

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  • Paperback

    560 pages

  • Release Date

    1 May 2014

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Summary

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 insig…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472112637
ISBN-10:1472112636
Author:Robert Sellers
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Constable
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:560
Release Date:1 May 2014
Weight:455g
Dimensions:164mm x 202mm x 38mm
Series:Tom Thorne Novels
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Critics Review

This is a brilliant and beguiling account of Reed’s life and times

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 around him. If nothing else, this highly readable book is a permanent reminder of just how exhausting it must have been to be Oliver Reed. - Glasgow Sunday Herald

For the first time, Reed s close family has collaborated on a project about Reed himself, revealing a complex man behind the fa ade, a person of great passions and loyalties underscored by deep-rooted vulnerabilities and insecurities. With never-heard-before anecdotes and new interviews with family, friends and peers, What Fresh Lunacy Is This? is a revealing examination of his mould-breaking personality - Sight and Sound

Like Reed himself, the book might not be subtle but in places it s hilariously funny and, by the end, oddly moving as well - The Observer

In this adulatory but always entertaining book, Sellers shows that Ollie was a more interesting figure than the cartoon drunk of the tabloids - Sunday Times

What Fresh Lunacy Is This? is a nice, racy romp with Reed the rum-sodden rogue - Financial Times

About The Author

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 controversial Battle for Bond, which for a time was banned by the family of Ian Fleming. He was a regular contributor to Empire, Total Film, Independent, SFX and Cinema Retro and has contributed to a number of television documentaries, including Channel 4’s The 100 Best Family Films.

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