Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life Paperback - 1984
by Mortimer, John Clifford
- Used
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Details
- Title Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life
- Author Mortimer, John Clifford
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1984-01-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 702151
- ISBN 9780140068603 / 0140068600
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.11 x 0.43 in (19.71 x 12.98 x 1.09 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Mortimer, John, Authors, English - 20th century - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 83013078
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
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.