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Furious Cool - Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him (Paperback)
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"Richard Pryor was chain lightning to everything around him. He
shocked the world through with human electricity. He blew all our
comfortable balance to hell. And Furious Cool captures it
brilliantly." --Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World
SpinRichard Pryor was arguably the single most influential
performer of the second half of the twentieth century, and
certainly he was the most successful black actor/comedian ever.
Controversial and somewhat enigmatic during his life, Pryor's
performances opened up a whole new world of possibilities, merging
fantasy with angry reality in a way that wasn't just new--it was
theretofore unthinkable. Now, in this groundbreaking and revelatory
work, Joe and David Henry bring him alive again both as a man and
as an artist, providing an in-depth appreciation of his talent and
his lasting influence, as well as an insightful examination of the
world he lived in and the myriad influences that shaped both his
persona and his art. "Brothers David and Joe Henry have brought
Richard Pryor back to pulsating life, affirming both his humanity
and his immortality as a comic--and tragic--genius." --The
Huffington Post "A sleek, highly literate biography that places the
comic in the pop-cultural context of his times." --Bloomberg News
"It would be enough if Furious Cool was a profile of Pryor's
uncanny talents, psychic turmoil, and ungovernable behavior, but
it's also a fascinating history of black comedy . . . Furious Cool
captures Pryor's frenetic routines and stage presence on the page .
. . The inextricable legacy of Richard Pryor--his boldness,
inventiveness, candor, and empathy--lives on." --Los Angeles
Magazine "An addictively readable study of the path of this
outsized talent . . . Someday, when fewer people know Richard
Pryor's name, Furious Cool will be the best defense against the
worst sort of forgetting--the kind that involves who we are now,
who we loved once, and why." --Esquire
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