All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate - Softcover

Armitage, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141040467 ISBN 13: 9780141040462

Verlag: Penguin, 2009

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory (Sue Townsend Sunday Times)

I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett - there is the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark . . . a fine balance of humour and poignancy (The Times)

The salty prose of an original poetic voice (Melvyn Bragg Observer)

A thoughtful, witty combination of travel writing, autobiography and Alan Bennett-style diary (John-Paul Flintoff Daily Telegraph)

Laugh-out-loud funny . . . has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye (Independent)

An original and talented writer . . . highly entertaining and there are flashes of wit and moments of tenderness and brilliantly accurate observation (Vernon Scannell Sunday Telegraph)

The best book I have read in a long time on what he insists is the true North of England (Geoffrey Moorhouse Daily Telegraph)

I was irresistibly reminded of Alan Bennett - there is the same wry humour, wonderfully telling selection of detail or remark... a fine balance of humour and poignancy (The Times)

The salty prose of an original poetic voice (Melvyn Bragg Observer)

Laugh-out-loud funny... has all the resonant precision of a poet's ear and eye (Independent)

Reseña del editor:

'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times
_____________________________________

All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged and uneven terrain of a writer's formative years - from tax problems to probation to American tours, football to family to running away to Iceland - Simon Armitage explores growing up and being Northern. It's about humour, language, writing, film, houses, homes, time wasters, one loose tyre, you, me and all points in-between.
_____________________________________

'Laugh-out-loud funny' Independent

'A delight' Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement

'A perfect holiday dipper' Scotsman

'An Alan Bennett-style diary' Daily Telegraph

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141040467
• ISBN 13: 9780141040462
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256