{"product_id":"what-fresh-lunacy-is-this-9781472112637","title":"What Fresh Lunacy is This","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOliver 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor  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 man seen by many as merely a brawling, boozing hellraiser. And  yet he was so much more than this. For behind that image, which all too  often he played up to in public, was a vastly complex individual, a man  of deep passions and loyalty but also deep-rooted vulnerability and  insecurities. Why was a proud, patriotic, intelligent, successful and  erudite man so obsessed about proving himself to others, time and time  again?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the Reed myth is of Homeric proportio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a brilliant and beguiling account of Reed’s life and times * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eThere 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 *\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time, Reed’s close family has collaborated on a project about Reed himself, revealing a complex man behind the façade, 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, \u003ci\u003eWhat Fresh Lunacy Is This?\u003c\/i\u003e is a revealing examination of his mould-breaking personality * Sight and Sound *\u003cbr\u003eLike 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 *\u003cbr\u003eIn this adulatory but always entertaining book, Sellers… shows that “Ollie” was a more interesting figure than the cartoon drunk of the tabloids * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Fresh Lunacy Is This?\u003c\/i\u003e is a nice, racy romp with Reed the rum-sodden rogue * Financial Times *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739363684695,"sku":"9781472112637","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472112637.jpg?v=1720052027","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-fresh-lunacy-is-this-9781472112637","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}