John Berger
Attention is inescapably drawn to his stature (he stands 6' 6"). Impressive though that is (albeit in a slightly zoological sort of way), it is less remarkable than his unquenchable appetite for commercial triumph: an appetite that betrays no sign of being sated, notwithstanding staggering personal enrichment in recent years.
Were this not enough, there is also the vivid and sometimes improbable family history, with its lustrous examples of insanity (great-great-great-great uncle), chronic addiction (grandfather: enslaved to both bottle and...
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