Owning-Up: The Trilogy: Scouse Mouse;Rum, Bum And Concertina;Owning Up (Penguin Classic Biography S.) - Softcover
This single volume includes three famous Memoirs - SCOUSE MOUSE, RUM, BUM & CONCERTINA and OWNING UP. SCOUSE MOUSE is a funny and frequently touching story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. RUM, BUM & CONCERTINA describes Melly's National Service in which he becomes an anarchist and connoisseur of Surrealist Art while self-educating himself on some of the wilder shores of love. In London, Melly works in an art gallery and in OWNING UP describes how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival, revelling in an endless round of pubs, clubs, seedy guest-houses and transport caffs while surrounded by a mad array of musicians, tarts, drunks and arch-eccentrics.
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George Melly's three autobiographical memoirs - "Scouse Mouse", "Rum, Bum and Concertina" and "Owning Up" in one volume for the first time. An account of the author's life from childhood in middle-class Liverpool in the thirties, through national service in the navy as an ordinary seaman to his emergence as a connoisseur of surrealist art and his career as a jazz singer.
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Liverpudlian, National Serviceman, connoisseur of Surrealist art, writer and Jazz musician.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0141390018
- ISBN 13 9780141390017
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages608
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