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A must-read for fans of JAWS, classic cinema, literary biography, powerful women, and stories of brilliant men who burned brightly and died too soon.
An unconventional biography told through the eyes of Robert Shaw’s nephew, this is narrative nonfiction at its most intimate and revealing—a raw, riveting journey into the heart and mind of one of the most complex figures in 20th-century film and theater. Robert Shaw unforgettably commanded attention as the weathered seaman Captain Quint in the blockbuster sensation, Jaws. But what came before and after that landmark film is as dramatic as the hunt for the great white shark itself.
Shaw was shaped by brilliant, forceful women and haunted by personal demons. Capturing the many facets of the vibrant, generous, and sometimes polarizing man, Myers explores the forces that shaped a dynamic personality—including Robert’s indomitable mother, his deeply troubled father, and his activist sister, Joanna, with whom Robert shared an unbreakable bond. Out of the traumatic events of their childhood in the Orkney Islands and Cornwall, Mrs. Shaw pushed her children to pursue their dreams. For Robert, that dream was acting and writing.
“No person who reads Chris Shaw Myers’ narrative will ever, ever see or hear Quint’s speech the same way again. Things suddenly make sense. Terrible and tragic sense. That is what this book does for Robert Shaw. It is illuminating and clarifying.” —The Montauk Sun
A must-read for fans of JAWS, classic cinema, literary biography, powerful women, and stories of brilliant men who burned brightly and died too soon.
An unconventional biography told through the eyes of Robert Shaw’s nephew, this is narrative nonfiction at its most intimate and revealing—a raw, riveting journey into the heart and mind of one of the most complex figures in 20th-century film and theater. Robert Shaw unforgettably commanded attention as the weathered seaman Captain Quint in the blockbuster sensation, Jaws. But what came before and after that landmark film is as dramatic as the hunt for the great white shark itself.
Shaw was shaped by brilliant, forceful women and haunted by personal demons. Capturing the many facets of the vibrant, generous, and sometimes polarizing man, Myers explores the forces that shaped a dynamic personality—including Robert’s indomitable mother, his deeply troubled father, and his activist sister, Joanna, with whom Robert shared an unbreakable bond. Out of the traumatic events of their childhood in the Orkney Islands and Cornwall, Mrs. Shaw pushed her children to pursue their dreams. For Robert, that dream was acting and writing.
“No person who reads Chris Shaw Myers’ narrative will ever, ever see or hear Quint’s speech the same way again. Things suddenly make sense. Terrible and tragic sense. That is what this book does for Robert Shaw. It is illuminating and clarifying.” —The Montauk Sun