Rumpole and The Primrose Path - Softcover

Mortimer, John Clifford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142004863 ISBN 13: 9780142004869

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2004

Synopsis

With Rumpole Rests His Case, legions of fans welcomed back the curmudgeonly London barrister they had loved for years?and they are eager for more. The six new stories in Rumpole and the Primrose Path find Horace Rumpole?despite a heart attack that left him at death's door in the previous volume?deftly parrying everything from the admonitions of his wife, Hilda, to the vagaries of his legal colleagues and their new director of marketing, Luci. With her cell phone, corporate jargon, glossy brochures, and plans to give their chambers a new image, Luci presumes Rumpole is soon to expire, and has been planning his memorial service. But the witty and irreverent Rumpole, sharp as ever, is far from hanging up his wig!

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Review:

Rumpoles wit has not deserted him... Mortimer is in high form here. ("The New Yorker") For things most truly themselves, there should be a special place of honor... We should remember to be thankful for Rumpole. ("The Washington Post") Mortimer is the master of a crisp, witty, eminently readable prose style. ("Los Angeles Times")

Rumpoleas wit has not deserted him... Mortimer is in high form here. ("The New Yorker")

Mortimer is the master of a crisp, witty, eminently readable prose style. ("Los Angeles Times")

For things most truly themselves, there should be a special place of honor... We should remember to be thankful for Rumpole. ("The Washington Post")

Rumpole s wit has not deserted him... Mortimer is in high form here. ("The New Yorker")

Rumpole's wit has not deserted him... Mortimer is in high form here. ("The New Yorker")

RumpoleAEs wit has not deserted him... Mortimer is in high form here. (The New Yorker)

For things most truly themselves, there should be a special place of honor... We should remember to be thankful for Rumpole. (The Washington Post)

Mortimer is the master of a crisp, witty, eminently readable prose style. (Los Angeles Times)

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0142004863
• ISBN 13: 9780142004869
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 211