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Pile, Stephen

 
9780571352890: The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures: An intrepid selection from the original volumes
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ISBN 10 : 0571352898 ISBN 13 : 9780571352890
Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2019

Synopsis

All successful people are the same (you know, drive, will to win, determination) - it's just too dull to contemplate. But everyone who messes up big time does so in a way that is completely individual.

Step forward the fifty Mexican convicts who dug an escape tunnel out of their jail and came up in the courtroom before the judge who sentenced them.

Please welcome the world's worst tourist who spent two days in New York believing he was in Rome.

Be thrilled by the man who wrote an English-Portuguese phrasebook without either knowing English or owning an English-Portuguese dictionary.

And marvel at the least successful kamikaze pilot who returned from eleven suicide missions, lived to the age of 93 and went on to write an autobiography in which he claimed planes were unsafe.

The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures shows that there really is no limit to what humanity can achieve, celebrating the vast, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Pile was a journalist for far too long and is the author of The Book of Heroic Failures. He is also the Founder and President of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and was the Artistic Director of the First International Nether Wallop Arts festival in 1984, which came about by accident. The next week Stephen met his wife, had three children, became a television critic for 14 years and hasn't been out of the house since, which is why Britain looks so strange and changed.

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Éditeur
Faber & Faber
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0571352898
ISBN 13 
9780571352890
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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9780571277339: The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures: An intrepid selection from the original volumes

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0571277330 ISBN 13 :  9780571277339
Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2012
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