Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life - Softcover

Mortimer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140063838 ISBN 13: 9780140063837

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1987

Synopsis

"Clinging to the Wreckage" is the first and most celebrated volume of John Mortimer's memoirs. It recounts with great wit and style his peculier childhood in the Chilterns - the only son of a blind, poetry-spouting barrister and his devoted wife - followed by the author's own experiences in the law. A bestseller in its day, the book remains one of Mortimer's greatest achievements.

About this title

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.

From AudioFile:

British barrister turned writer John Mortimer is best known in the U.S. for Rumpole of the Bailey. However, his popular and prolific output includes numerous plays, television drama, novels, essays and memoirs. In England, he has gained equal fame for his long anticensorship activism. Clinging to the Wreckage (1981) recalls and comments on significant occurrences in his long life and times. His amiable wit and keen observation inform even his most painful memories. Unfortunately, the narrator injects a self-pitying note. Otherwise, he gives a delightful, unpretentious reading that brings home every nuance of Mortimer's intelligence and charm. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140063838
• ISBN 13: 9780140063837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256