BRUCE LEE

More than forty years after Bruce Lee`s sudden death at age 32, journalist and author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee`s life. It`s also one of the only accounts: incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee`s family, friends, business associates and even the mistress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon.There are his early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema: his actor father`s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up: his beginnings as a martial arts teacher, eventually becoming personal instructor to movie stars like Steve McQueen: his struggles as an Asian-American actor in Hollywood and frustration seeing role after role he auditioned for go to white actors in eye makeup: his eventual triumph as a leading man: his challenges juggling a sky-rocketing career with his duties as a father and husband: and his shocking end that to this day is still shrouded in mystery.