Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes
Autor Ferdinand Mounten Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780747596479
ISBN-10: 0747596476
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0747596476
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
This is a book to stand beside Alan Clarke's diaries, Brian Thompson's KEEPING MUM (winner of the Costa Biography Award), Xandra Bingley's bestselling BERTIE, MAY AND MRS FISH, Tim Jeal's SWIMMING WITH MY FATHER and John Cornwell's SEMINARY BOY. Think James Lees-Milne without the snobbery.
Notă biografică
Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and two grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life.Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic), which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination, including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'.
Recenzii
'Hard to beat. I could read this sort of book for ever'
'Reading this book actually makes you feel perceptibly happier and buoyed up'
'An unadulterated joy ... Every page is shot through with anecdote and wit, so that the whole experience feels like being at a peculiarly wonderful dinner party ... Funny, astute and clever'
'A loving, lyrical, life-filled memoir'
'Reading this book actually makes you feel perceptibly happier and buoyed up'
'An unadulterated joy ... Every page is shot through with anecdote and wit, so that the whole experience feels like being at a peculiarly wonderful dinner party ... Funny, astute and clever'
'A loving, lyrical, life-filled memoir'
Descriere
A pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty years