Sean Connery

Name: Sean Connery
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The measure of a man

Christopher Bray

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Faber & Faber
01 November 2011

Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Biography: arts & entertainment

Sean Connery's creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. But while Bond would make Connery the first actor to command a million dollar-plus fee, the man himself was forever pouring scorn on the fantasies audiences found it increasingly hard to separate him from. Undaunted, Connery went on to prove himself one of the cinema's most relaxed and assured stars and a guaranteed box-office draw. Moulding and remoulding his image to fit the contours of the age, Connery has gone from Sadeian Sixties sex symbol to the sagacious magus figure to which today's young stars are forever turning.

Spirited, argumentative and sardonically celebratory, Christopher Bray's Sean Connery is both a biography of a star and an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. And it's an analysis of what it means to be star-struck - a critical tribute to a secular icon who has shaped so many dreams.

By: Christopher Bray
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780571238088
ISBN 10: 0571238084
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 01 November 2011
Recommended Age: From 0 to 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Bray has since written on movies, books, music and paintings for the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the TLS, Literary Review, the New York Times, the New Statesman and the Word. The author of Michael Caine: A Class Act, a book the renowned film critic David Thomson described as Excellent... Bray has thought hard about this man, and he has a fascinating story to tell . He lives and works in south-east London.

Reviews for Sean Connery: The measure of a man

Instead of recycling old scandal sheets and puff pieces, he gives us the only book that could matter: a bristling and learned meditation on that other Connery the one that dreams are made of.--Louis Bayard