Clinging to the Wreckage (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Mortimer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141193840 ISBN 13: 9780141193847

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2010

Synopsis

Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his hilarious and immortal literary creations.

Told with great humour and touching honesty, this is a magnificent achievement by one of Britain's best-loved writers.

About this title

About the Author:

John Mortimer (1923 - 2009) was a novelist, playwright and barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels (Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained, and The Sound of Trumpets) featuring Leslie Titmuss. Sir John received a CBE in 1986 and a knighthood for his services to the arts in 1998.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141193840
• ISBN 13: 9780141193847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256