Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life - Couverture souple

Mortimer, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140068600 ISBN 13 : 9780140068603

Editeur : Penguin Books, 1984

Synopsis

Clinging to the Wreckage Relates the pleasures and paradoxes of John Mortimer's early life. This autobiography takes readers from his unusual childhood to the dilemmas of his life in the law. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this spirited memoir John Mortimer, an esteemed barrister as well as novelist, playwright, and journalist, relates all the paradoxes and pleasures of his double life.

With wit and style, Mr. Mortimer takes you from his unusual childhood (his father, a blind barrister, insisted that his wife read the sordid details of his divorce briefs in public) to the dilemmas of his life as a barrister (one of his clients indignantly declared, "Your Mr. Rumpole could have gotten me out of this, why the hell can't you!").

Filled with laughter and a sense of the absurd, , Clinging to the Wreckage makes it clear why John Mortimer has been called Noel Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, and Evelyn Waugh rolled into one.

Biographie de l'auteur

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140068600
• ISBN 13: 9780140068603
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 224