Publisher's Synopsis
...the definitive life. I don't think it will ever be superseded ... It is scholarly yet readable the fullest most objective and factually detailed book on virtually every aspect of Buster's career and personality: artistic financial and pyschological ... full of the most interesting (and surprising) information. ä Dwight MacDonald The New York Review of BooksÞÞ A candid yet compassionate account of Keaton's turbulent personal life...reveals the roots of his humanity ... his pessimism ... âhisã superb spirit of comic gloom ... ä Boston Globe
