This work tells the story of Tony Hancock, one of Britain's top comedians. Despite his success he was racked by doubt and insecurity, haunted by irrational obsessions, a chronic alcoholic and temperamental to the point of collapse. This book details his complex and troubled life. Aggressive, possessive, untidy, vague, unreliable, drunken, seedy, overweight, a survivor of endless breakdowns, Tony Hancock was a complex character. His ruthless and often shabby ingratitude alienated many of his closest friends and left his two wives battered and broken. He also felt his own identity was being swallowed up in the fictional persona of Antony Aloysius St John Hancock, the pompous buffoon of 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam. Tony Hancock committed suicide in Sydney in June 1968. He was jsut 44 years old.
- ISBN10 0712676155
- ISBN13 9780712676151
- Publish Date 19 May 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 August 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Century
- Edition Illustrated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 592
- Language English