Compulsive Spike Milligan - Couverture rigide

Milligan, Spike

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0007193335 ISBN 13 : 9780007193332

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This second superb collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians is an excellent companion to the sensational original, The Essential Spike Milligan. Spanning his 50-year career and incorporating a rich and varied range of material, this second anthology is as wonderfully unmissable as the first. When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history -- as well as a legion of devoted fans and admirers. His themes ranged from environmental issues to the war, from nostalgia to depression, and his prolific output covers some of the most evocative events of the twentieth century, in a style both twistedly comic and harrowingly honest. The huge success of the Spike Milligan anthology, The Essential Spike Milligan, has inspired a second raid on the original brilliant source. Milligan was arguably the most one of the prolific and mould-breaking comic writers of the twentieth century and this second anthology gives another opportunity to sample his finest writing. It includes more of the best from his war memoirs and novel Puckoon, his children's stories, poetry and drawings plus a wonderful collection from his voluminous correspondence from the 1960s onwards with such varied recipients as the House of Commons, the Director-General of the BBC, Private Eye and British Telecom. A compulsive read for all Milligan fans.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Spike Milligan was born in 1918. In the 1950s he wrote and performed in The Goon Show with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, and in the 1960s he had success as a stage and film actor. Active into his eighties, his one-man shows were always sell-out events. Milligan received lifetime achievement awards for writing and for comedy in 2000 and 2001. He died in 2002.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007193335
• ISBN 13: 9780007193332
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Farnes Norma
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible