...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 I don't think it will ever be superseded ...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. Dwight MacDonald, The New York Review of Books
A candid yet compassionate account of Keaton's turbulent personal life...reveals the roots of his humanity ... his pessimism ... ?his? superb spirit of comic gloom ... Boston Globe