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Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life
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Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life Paperback - 1987

by Mortimer, John

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  • Title Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life
  • Author Mortimer, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1987
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 140628-D10
  • 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
  • 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

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.

From the publisher

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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About the author

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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