CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE

9780141193847 | Penguin Modern Classics
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Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his hilarious and immortal literary creations.

Told with great humour and touching honesty, this is a magnificent achievement by one of Britain's best-loved writers.



PRODUCT DETAILS :
ISBN : 9780141193847
BY (AUTHOR) Mortimer, Sir John
PUBLISHER : Penguin Books Ltd PUBLICATION DATE : November 04, 2010
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Penguin Classics
LANGUAGE : English AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback
DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm
WEIGHT : 191 g
SERIES : Penguin Modern Classics

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies