The Time of Your Life - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074756471X ISBN 13: 9780747564713

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

In John Burningham's well-stocked collection of the wit and wisdom that comes with age are contributions from Raymond Briggs, Ivor Cutler, Frank Dickens, Michael Foot, Richard Ingrams, Doris Lessing, Patrick Moore, Dervla Murphy, Ronald Searle, Tom Sharpe, Chad Varah, and many others on such themes as time, birthdays, travel, and love. Woven in amongst the pieces is a rich selection of quotes—from T. S. Eliot and Leon Trotsky to Bob Hope and Ogden Nash—and 50 witty and poignant drawings by John Burningham.

About this title

About the Author:

John Burningham, two-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, is the celebrated author and illustrator of many much-loved books for children, including Avocado Baby, Borka, Mr Gumpy's Outing, Trubloff, Grandpa and Cloudland, and of two illustrated books for adults, England and France.

Review:

"It's a law of script writing that scenes get shorter and the action speeds up towards the end. In childhood, the afternoons spread out for years. For the old, the years flicker past like the briefest of afternoons. The playwright Christopher Fry, now ninety-three, told me that after the age of eighty, you seem to be having breakfast every five minutes. These film scenes, building to an inevitable climax, tend less to tragedy than farce. Dying is a matter of slapstick and prat falls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 074756471X
• ISBN 13: 9780747564713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256