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When Christopher Matthew was six, the poems of Milne always reassured him that other children were as naughty as he was, so on reaching sixty he decided that he should adapt Now We Are Six, for an older audience.
Now We Are Sixty is often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising we are not as young as we thought, while some are about the more disconcerting problems of modern life; mobile telephones on trains, anti-social behaviour, traffic jams and the internet.
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...an elegant take on Milne (The Times)
Matthew's little book is wise, perceptive and very funny, (The Independent on Sunday)
The book is very clever and very funny, (The Guardian)
...it takes a wry look at topics, ranging from insomnia to golf clubs and mobile telephones. (The Financial Times)
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Matthew's little book is wise, perceptive and very funny, (The Independent on Sunday)
The book is very clever and very funny, (The Guardian)
...it takes a wry look at topics, ranging from insomnia to golf clubs and mobile telephones. (The Financial Times)
Over a quarter of a million copies have been sold of this book and it was ranked number one in the top five poetry books in the Observer .
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- PublisherJohn Murray
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0719562368
- ISBN 13 9780719562365
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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Now We Are Sixty
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John Murray, London
(2002)
ISBN 10: 0719562368
ISBN 13: 9780719562365
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Book Description Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Decorations by David Eccles. From first page: "What Christopher Matthew has done is take some of Milne's best loved poems, like Buckingham Palace, Lines and Squares, and The King's Breakfast, and rewrite them for sixty-year-olds, with results that are often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking". Printed in Great Britain. Very slight shelfwear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 112pp. SB-46. Seller Inventory # 036145
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