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Speak After the Beep: Studies in the Art of Communicating with Inanimate and Semi-animate Objects - Softcover

Michael Frayn

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9780413699404: Speak After the Beep: Studies in the Art of Communicating with Inanimate and Semi-animate Objects
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ISBN 10: 0413699404 ISBN 13: 9780413699404
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1996

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A collection of writings by novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, which are based on his column in the "Guardian", covering the pomposities and inanities of public announcements, fashionable conversations and self-advertising of all kinds. From "News at Ten" on "Hamlet" to an extra chapter in the Book of Genesis describing the week after creation; from airline stewards' briefings to a new opera, "The Magic Mobile", in which Papageno tries frantically to phone home from the airport, Frayn displays a accurate ear for the ludicrous prose styles of modern life.

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  • PublisherMethuen Publishing Ltd
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 0413699404
  • ISBN 13 9780413699404
  • BindingPaperback
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