Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life
Author(s): Sir John Mortimer
In the first volume of his bestselling autobiography, novelist, playwright and former barrister John Mortimer relates all the pleasures and paradoxes of his early life. With wit and style, he takes us 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 in the law (one of his clients indignantly declared, 'Your Mr Rumpole could've gotten me out of this, why the hell can't you!'). Filled with laughter and a sense of the absurd, "Clinging to the Wreckage" is an extraordinary insight into the rich life of one of the great figures of our time.
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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."
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.162
- : 11 December 1986
- : 198mm X 130mm X 11mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sir John Mortimer
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 828.91409
- : 224
- : illustrations