Being a Scot
(Sprache: Englisch)
"My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound. I left school at thirteen. I didn't have a formal education...It has...
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"My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound. I left school at thirteen. I didn't have a formal education...It has been a long return journey from my two-room Fountainbridge home in the smoky industrial end of Edinburgh opposite the McCowans' toffee factory. There was no bathroom with a communal toilet outside. For years we had only gas lighting. Sometimes the light in the shared stairway would be out after some desperado had broken the mantle to bubble gas through milk for kicks." 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Sean Connery
Sean Connery, geb. 1930 in Edinburgh, wuchs in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf und ging mit 15 Jahren zur Armee. 1950 wurde er Mister Universum. Ab 1954 folgten erste Filmrollen, bis er seine erfolgreichste Rolle fand: James Bond. Zu seinen bekanntesten Filmen gehören 'Der Name der Rose' (1986) und 'The Untouchables, Die Unbestechlichen' (1987), für den er einen Oscar erhielt. Sean Connery setzt sich seit langem für die Unabhängigkeit Schottlands ein. Im Jahr 2000 wurde er für seine Verdienste um Schottland zum Ritter geschlagen. Murray Grigor wurde im schottischen Inverness geboren. Er ist Autor und Filmemacher. Seine Filmproduktionen, u.a. Sean Connery's Edinburgh, wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. 2006 erhielt er den Creative Scotland AwardMurray Grigor wurde im schottischen Inverness geboren. Er ist Autor und Filmemacher. Seine Filmproduktionen, u.a. Sean Connery s Edinburgh, wurden mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. 2006 erhielt er den Creative Scotland Award
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sean Connery
- 2009, 411 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 18,2 x 22,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- And Murray Grigor
- Verlag: PHOENIX
- ISBN-10: 0753826313
- ISBN-13: 9780753826317
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Englisch
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"A detailed, fascinating, and beautifully designed study of Scottish culture and identity . . . there can be no doubt that this is essentially Connery's work." --"Sunday Times"
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