TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henry,Lenny
TI  - Rising to the surface
SN  - 9780571368778 (hbk.) :
AV  - PN2598 
U1  - 920 HEN 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber & Faber
KW  - Henry, Lenny.
KW  - Comedians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Actors
KW  - Biography & non-fiction prose
KW  - thema
KW  - Autobiography: arts & entertainment
KW  - Memoirs
N2  - 'Rising to the Surface' traces Lenny Henry's career through the 80s and 90s. The 16-year-old who won a talent competition, now has to navigate his way through the seas of professional comedy, learning his craft through sheer graft and hard work. We follow Lenny through a period of great creativity - prize-winning tv programs, summer seasons across Britain, the starring role in a Hollywood film, stand-up gigs in New York and a gala wedding to Dawn French. But with each rise there is a fall, the most traumatic being the death of his mother. But by the end of the book he has been able to rise through a sea of troubles and breaks out to the surface to accept the Golden Rose of Montreaux for his work in television
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