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Spike Milligan
Humphrey Carpenter
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Description for Spike Milligan
Paperback. A biography of comic genius Spike Milligan, who died in February 2002, by one of Britain's leading biographers. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 or 24 pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: APB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 56. Weight in Grams: 314. Good copy with some shelf wear
Spike Milligan was one of our best-loved comics as well as one of our most original. In this first major assessment of Spike's life and career, the highly respected biographer Humphrey Carpenter has - through copious research and access to many of those closest to the great man - unearthed a character who could be as difficult and contradictory as he was generous and talented.
The creator of The Goons was to influence a whole generation of comics, yet was never to feel fully valued. His periods of depression were matched by periods of high creativity ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340826126
SKU
KHN0000361
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Humphrey Carpenter
Humphrey Carpenter wrote many biographies and won the Somerset Maugham Award, the E.M. Forster Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and was a runner-up for the Whitbread Prize for biography. He died in 2005.
Reviews for Spike Milligan
Carpenter gets to the heart of the gloomy monster.
Sunday Herald
Carpenter's Milligan biography has some great comic riffs ...(this) very readable biography shows him at his most flawed and most human.
Guardian
This biography delves deep behind the comic genius' many masks, exposing a depressed, self-centred and fascinating individual.
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In this definitive ... Read more
Sunday Herald
Carpenter's Milligan biography has some great comic riffs ...(this) very readable biography shows him at his most flawed and most human.
Guardian
This biography delves deep behind the comic genius' many masks, exposing a depressed, self-centred and fascinating individual.
OK!
In this definitive ... Read more