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My Early Life and Other Mistakes
Taschenbuch von Ferdinand Mount
Sprache: Englisch

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'Hard to beat. I could read this sort of book for ever' Stephen Fry

'An unadulterated joy ... Every page is shot through with anecdote and wit, so that the whole experience feels like being at a peculiarly wonderful dinner party ... Funny, astute and clever' Observer'A loving, lyrical, life-filled memoir' GuardianCold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue.

A tender, moving and witty portrait of Ferdinand Mount's family and his early life, it follows his bumbling path from his decadent upbringing in the world of 'Hobohemia' to his schooldays at Eton, and from the boozy depths of Fleet Street in the 60s to his years at the vortex of Downing Street in the 80s as speech writer (much to his own bemusement) for Margaret Thatcher.
Every sentence radiates with fondness, intelligence and humour in this utterly charming anthology of an eccentric and colourful cast of people who defined their generation.
'Hard to beat. I could read this sort of book for ever' Stephen Fry

'An unadulterated joy ... Every page is shot through with anecdote and wit, so that the whole experience feels like being at a peculiarly wonderful dinner party ... Funny, astute and clever' Observer'A loving, lyrical, life-filled memoir' GuardianCold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue.

A tender, moving and witty portrait of Ferdinand Mount's family and his early life, it follows his bumbling path from his decadent upbringing in the world of 'Hobohemia' to his schooldays at Eton, and from the boozy depths of Fleet Street in the 60s to his years at the vortex of Downing Street in the 80s as speech writer (much to his own bemusement) for Margaret Thatcher.
Every sentence radiates with fondness, intelligence and humour in this utterly charming anthology of an eccentric and colourful cast of people who defined their generation.
Über den Autor
Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and two grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life.

Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic), which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination, including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'.
Zusammenfassung
Longlisted for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize 2008
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780747596479
ISBN-10: 0747596476
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mount, Ferdinand
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 197 x 129 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Ferdinand Mount
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.03.2009
Gewicht: 0,364 kg
Artikel-ID: 121213152
Über den Autor
Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and two grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life.

Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic), which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination, including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'.
Zusammenfassung
Longlisted for the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize 2008
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780747596479
ISBN-10: 0747596476
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mount, Ferdinand
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 197 x 129 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Ferdinand Mount
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.03.2009
Gewicht: 0,364 kg
Artikel-ID: 121213152
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