Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
Autor Ferdinand Mounten Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 sep 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472991980
ISBN-10: 1472991982
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472991982
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
An archetypal English memoir of a family quest: will appeal to those who read and enjoy family history/mystery, and shows such as 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Notă biografică
Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2002. He was previously head of the Number Ten Policy Unit under Margaret Thatcher. As a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to the Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. His novel Of Love and Asthma, part of a six-volume series, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992. He lives in North London with his family.
Cuprins
1 Angmering-on-Sea2 Georgie3 Buster4 Charters5 Brightside6 Crawford Mansions7 Eileen and Elizabeth8 W. F. 9 Brightside Revisited10 Seven HillsPostscriptsThanksPicture and Text Credits
Recenzii
Aunt Munca flees the streets of Sheffield for a suite at Claridges, getting younger by the year and leaving behind her a trail of brazen lies and shattered pieties. In his family memoir, Ferdinand Mount pursues her with wit and skill through a career in which crime pays, marriage is for a week, and children are lost like old gloves. Kiss Myself Goodbye is grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page.
Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original. Mount unpeels the layers of this mysterious life with the tenacity of an experienced detective and the excitement of a fresh-eyed enthusiast.
Extraordinary . shed[s] a brilliant light on the strangeness of people's lives, the need for disguise and masquerade, the shame that drives people to act in the most peculiar ways, the ghosts that reside, unburied, within us.
Wonderful, funny and wise
Delicious . As well as an ear for the cadences of a sentence, Mount has a remarkable ability to convey the feeling of place . Beneath the surface of this sparklingly wry book you sense all kinds of unexplored feelings of abandonment and loss.
Mount is one of our finest prose stylists and Kiss Myself Goodbye is a witty, moving and beautifully crafted account of one woman's determination to live to the full.
An extraordinary book
Unique and immensely enjoyable. I only wish it were longer.
Kiss Myself Goodbye is a work of beauty. The simple truthfulness of Ferdinand Mount's storytelling is irresistible.
...A superbly written and jaw-dropping memoir.
Veering giddily from grand guignol to poignant melancholy, this is an exquisitely wrought portrait of a wickedly fascinating woman.
...this book, which is partly a family history and partly a detective novel, with extraordinary revelations and an impressive cast of characters dotted through the narrative.
Witty, moving and beautifully crafted, Kiss Myself Goodbye is a "masterclass" in bringing long-buried secrets to light.
[Mount ]. vividly captures bygone Britain.
It needs a writer of wit, imagination and empathy to carry me along from one layer of the tissue to the next. Mount is such a writer.
A wonderful memoir of the author's aunt - deadpan, shrewd and very dryly funny.
Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original. Mount unpeels the layers of this mysterious life with the tenacity of an experienced detective and the excitement of a fresh-eyed enthusiast.
Extraordinary . shed[s] a brilliant light on the strangeness of people's lives, the need for disguise and masquerade, the shame that drives people to act in the most peculiar ways, the ghosts that reside, unburied, within us.
Wonderful, funny and wise
Delicious . As well as an ear for the cadences of a sentence, Mount has a remarkable ability to convey the feeling of place . Beneath the surface of this sparklingly wry book you sense all kinds of unexplored feelings of abandonment and loss.
Mount is one of our finest prose stylists and Kiss Myself Goodbye is a witty, moving and beautifully crafted account of one woman's determination to live to the full.
An extraordinary book
Unique and immensely enjoyable. I only wish it were longer.
Kiss Myself Goodbye is a work of beauty. The simple truthfulness of Ferdinand Mount's storytelling is irresistible.
...A superbly written and jaw-dropping memoir.
Veering giddily from grand guignol to poignant melancholy, this is an exquisitely wrought portrait of a wickedly fascinating woman.
...this book, which is partly a family history and partly a detective novel, with extraordinary revelations and an impressive cast of characters dotted through the narrative.
Witty, moving and beautifully crafted, Kiss Myself Goodbye is a "masterclass" in bringing long-buried secrets to light.
[Mount ]. vividly captures bygone Britain.
It needs a writer of wit, imagination and empathy to carry me along from one layer of the tissue to the next. Mount is such a writer.
A wonderful memoir of the author's aunt - deadpan, shrewd and very dryly funny.