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De: John Connolly

Narrado por: Simon Slater

John Connolly re-creates 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 the greatest screen comedians the world has ever known: a man who knew both adoration and humiliation; who loved and was loved in turn; who betrayed and was betrayed; who never sought to cause pain to others yet left a trail of affairs and broken marriages in his wake...and whose life was ultimately defined by one relationship of such tenderness and devotion that only death could sever it: his partnership with the man he knew as Babe. he is Stan Laurel. But he did not really exist. Stan Laurel was a fiction.

With he, John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity, the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists, and one of the most enduring and beloved partnerships in cinema history: Laurel & Hardy.

©2017 Bad Dog Books Ltd (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limit

Another thing of beauty. A masterpiece

I wonder: is there something, anything, that this man writes which is NOT a masterpiece? This book is terribly beautiful. It's a study in art, misguided love, sadness, joy, friendship, emptiness, craziness even. But is a thing of beauty. So incredibly poetical and nostalgic, so vivid in it's dialogues and images that you can feel the emotions flow as you were "he". You love the already gone and sadly missed "Babe" as if you were there as "he" is, in those Oceana Apartments full of memories, ghost of womens, regrets and the hollow remains of what once was a perfect union. Wonderful