SEAN CONNERY PA

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. How can such worship not play havoc with one's soul-especially a soul as painfully unprepared for the pressures of stardom as Connery's? Spirited and argumentative, Christopher Bray's Sean Connery is the story of an actor learning his craft on the job and, at the end of his career, of a man pressing his stardom into the service of a burgeoning political awareness.

Christopher Bray has written on movies, books, music, and art for the Daily Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, the Literary Review, the New York Times, and the New Statesman. Also the author of Michael Caine: A Class Act, Christopher lives and works in southeast London.