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Clinging to the Wreckage
John Mortimer
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Description for Clinging to the Wreckage
Paperback. Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Clinging to the Wreckage - the first part of John Mortimer's hilarious and moving autobiography
'A true masterpiece of the genre' The Times
Here John Mortimer recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140063837
SKU
KOC0022155
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About John Mortimer
Sir John Mortimer was a novelist, playwright and barrister. The first book featuring his most famous character, Horace Rumpole, was published by Penguin in 1980, and Mortimer went on to publish a dozen collections of Rumpole stories as well as a handful of novels, culminating in 2007 in RUMPOLE MISBEHAVES. He was knighted in 1998 for his services to the ... Read more
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