CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Mortimer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141193840 ISBN 13: 9780141193847

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his hilarious and immortal literary creations.

Told with great humour and touching honesty, this is a magnificent achievement by one of Britain's best-loved writers.

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Sir John Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and barrister. The first book featuring his most famous character, Horace Rumpole, was published by Penguin in 1980, and Mortimer went on to publish a dozen collections of Rumpole stories as well as a handful of novels, culminating in 2007 in RUMPOLE MISBEHAVES. He was knighted in 1998 for his services to the arts and died in January 2009.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141193840
• ISBN 13: 9780141193847
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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