Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts
Autor Spike Milliganen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2012
With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy. Throughout his life, Milligan also wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. In this ground-breaking work, Norma Farnes, his long-time manager, companion, counsellor and confidante, gathers together the loose threads, reads between the lines and draws on the full breadth of his writing to present his life in his own words: an autobiography - of sorts.
From his childhood in India, through his early career as a jazz musician and sketch-show entertainer, his spells in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Artillery, to that fateful first broadcast of The Goon Show and beyond into the annals of comedy history, this is the autobiography Milligan never wrote.
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Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendaryGoon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241955956
ISBN-10: 0241955955
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 2 x 8pp b/w inset
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241955955
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 2 x 8pp b/w inset
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Norma
Farnes
was
Spike
Milligan's
agent,
manager,
mother
confessor
and
friend
for
thirty-six
years.
Her
books
includeSpike:
An
Intimate
MemoirandMemories
of
Milligan.
She
editedBox
18:
The
Unpublished
Spike
MilliganandThe
Compulsive
Spike
Milliganto
celebrate
the
fiftieth
anniversary
of
Spike's
first
bookSilly
Verse
for
Kidspublished
in
1959.
Norma
compiled
a
selection
of
his
children's
poems
and
stories
inThe
Magical
World
of
Milligan.
She
lives
with
her
partner
in
London
and
Yorkshire.
Recenzii
Milligan
is
the
Great
God
to
all
of
us
The Godfather of Alternative Comedy
My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
The Godfather of Alternative Comedy
My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.