Being a Scot - Brossura

Connery, S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0753826313 ISBN 13: 9780753826317

Casa editrice: Orion, 2009

Riassunto

Although he is an indubitably international superstar, Sir Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy. His round included Fettes College, where Ian Fleming had sent his fictional James Bond after he was expelled from Eton.

BEING A SCOT is a vivid and highly personal portrait of Scotland and its achievements, which is self-revelatory whilst full of Sir Sean's desire to shine light upon Scottish success and heroic failure. His personal quest with his friend and co-writer Murray Grigor has been to seek answers to some perplexing questions: How did Scots come to devise so many new sports and games, or raise others to new heights? What gave fire to the Gothic tendency in Scottish literature? Why have so many creatively inventive and influential architects been Scots? Where did Scotland's unreal blend of psychotic humour originate? And what about the national tradition of self-deprecation sometimes called the Scottish cringe?

Sean Connery offers a correction to misconceptions that many believe are part of the historical record whilst revealing as never before his own vibrant personal history.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Sean Connery's personal celebration of Scotland and being a Scot.

L'autore:

Sir Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh in 1930. He shot to international fame as James Bond. His three great passions in life are acting, golf and Scotland, and he rates his love of Scotland first.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Orion
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0753826313
• ISBN 13: 9780753826317
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416