Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren - Couverture souple

Coren, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184767321X ISBN 13 : 9781847673213

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2009

Synopsis

Edited by his children, Giles and Victoria, Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks is an anthology of humorous writing from the former editor of Punch and Radio 4 national treasure Alan Coren, who died in October 2007.

In a prolific forty-year career Alan Coren wrote for The Times, Observer, Tatler, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Listener, Punch and the New Yorker, and published over 20 books including The Sanity Inspector, Golfing for Cats and The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin (he turned down an invitation from Amin to visit Uganda saying, 'I'll probably end up as a sandwich'). Even twenty years ago he estimated that he had published six million words, or ten copies of War and Peace.

Coren was one of Britain's most prolific and now much-missed humourists, finding the comedy of life all around him and rendering it, hilariously and compellingly, in polished and witty prose which will be eagerly devoured by his loyal fanbase.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alan Coren (27 June 1938 - 18 October 2007) was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for nine years was the editor of Punch magazine.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'Brilliant' Melvyn Bragg

'Perfect' A.A. Gill

'Wickedly good' Clive James

'A master' Victoria Wood

The Queen at a loose end playing I-Spy, QPR fans arguing at the cheese counter, prank phone calls to Mao Tse-Tung, the Roman tax collector Glutinus Sinus dealing with the mud-caked Britons, Gatling guns, an Italian driving school, herons, hearing aids, hosepipe bans, talking parrots . . .

Welcome to the wonderful world of the late, great Alan Coren.

'Coren is not just a funny writer but a comic genius.'
Observer

'A master humorist!'
Daily Telegraph

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184767321X
• ISBN 13: 9781847673213
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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