But That's A Detail: Collected stories of A J Alan - Couverture souple

Alan, A J

 
9781478268413: But That's A Detail: Collected stories of A J Alan
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1478268417 ISBN 13 : 9781478268413
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

A J Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert, a Foreign Office official, amateur magician, former Royal Navy officer and cryptographer in Hut 8 (the Enigma team) at Bletchley Park.

Why did he need a pseudonym, you'd like to know, and the answer to that is that he made occasional broadcasts on the wireless in the '20s and '30s, spinning tall tales that he wrote himself and pasted onto large squares of cardboard so as not to disturb the audience with the sound of rustling pages. Lambert — that is, Alan — always turned up at the BBC in full evening dress, and with his own candle and matches as contingency in the event of a studio light failing.

His stories were immensely popular with radio listeners of the time. They are shaggy dog tales for the most part, often but not always steering away at the last moment from anything so vulgar as mere plot resolution. Some have a delicate touch of the supernatural about them, in the way a chap might tell you about an actual spooky experience.

The stories are very effective at doing precisely what the storyteller intended, namely letting you pass an agreeable quarter of an hour in the company of an amusing raconteur who's spinning an elegant verbal picture of how he went gadding about on various outré and/or outrageous adventures. Charming and whimsical, A J Alan deserves to find a new following among today’s readers and would surely be delighted to see his work launched online, just as he pioneered the exciting new communication medium of his own era.

This book contains ten of A J Alan's best stories: “The 19 Club”, “A Joy Ride”, “The Dream”, “Wottie”, “My Adventure in Norfolk”, “A Foggy Evening”, “My Adventure at Chislehurst”, “H2, etc”, “The Diver” and “The Hair”.

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À propos de l'auteur

A J Alan was the pseudonym of Leslie Harrison Lambert, a Foreign Office official, amateur magician, former Royal Navy officer and cryptographer in Hut 8 (the Enigma team) at Bletchley Park.

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1478268417
ISBN 13 
9781478268413
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Éditeur
Morris Dave
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