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Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts

Autor Spike Milligan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2012
Milligan's Meaning of Lifeis a glorious celebration of the legendary Spike Milligan. Here you will find his most intimate and hilarious reflections on life.

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

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 She editedBox 18: The Unpublished Spike MilliganandThe Compulsive Spike Milliganto celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Spike's first bookSilly Verse for Kidspublished in 1959.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
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