Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life by Mortimer, John

Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140068603)

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Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life by Mortimer, John

Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life

$24.00
Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life by Mortimer, John

Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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In this spirited memoir John Mortimer, an esteemed barrister as well as novelist, playwright, and journalist, relates all the paradoxes and pleasures of his double life.

With wit and style, Mr. Mortimer takes you from his unusual childhood (his father, a blind barrister, insisted that his wife read the sordid details of his divorce briefs in public) to the dilemmas of his life as a barrister (one of his clients indignantly declared, "Your Mr. Rumpole could have gotten me out of this, why the hell can't you!").

Filled with laughter and a sense of the absurd, Clinging to the Wreckage makes it clear why John Mortimer has been called Noel Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, and Evelyn Waugh rolled into one.



Author: John Mortimer
ISBN-10: 0140068600
ISBN-13: 9780140068603
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1984
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.11w x 0.43d
By John Mortimer
By John Mortimer
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John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

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