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With over 800,000 copies of the hardcover sold With over 800,000 copies of the hardcover sold in Britain alone, Billy is the biography of the manic Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, written by his wife Pamela Stephenson. In an account by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, and evoking the poignancy of the Ireland of Angela's Ashes in its descriptions of Scottish tenement life, Stephenson tells how hard luck beginnings and an idiosyncratic talent made Billy the man he is. Filled with riotous anecdotes from Billy's shows, stories about his films (Mrs. Brown) as well as harrowing tales from his childhood, this is the book Connolly's adoring public has been waiting for. Book Magazine Comedian and actor Billy Connolly (Mrs. Brown, White Oleander is the subject of this blandly written biography, a No. 1 bestseller in the U.K., penned by his wife. A clinical psychologist, Stephenson analyzes her contradictory husband and chronicles his impoverished childhood and rise to stardom. The author is a name-dropper who bores listeners with endless lists of famous people, including Mick Jagger and Frank Zappa, who admire her husband. Those not already enamored of Connolly probably won't enjoy the book.
