Publisher's Synopsis
'Look, Im hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I dont give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you. You may not like what I say, but you better believe it. He became a legend as Bogie, the world-weary, wise-cracking outsider, but in reality Humphrey Bogart was plagued by doubts and demons. He was born upper-class yet made his name playing mavericks, drank with the rat pack and met four wives on set including his great love, Lauren Bacall yet always mistrusted stardom. Here David Thomson, one of films most provocative writers, reveals the man behind cinemas greatest icon.
