The Time Of Your Life : " Getting On With Getting On" : - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747560854 ISBN 13: 9780747560852

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002

Synopsis

'If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself' - Eubie Blake, jazz musician, on reaching 100 In John Burningham's well-stocked larder 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 and marriage'. 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. 'When do you become old? When I left the House of Commons in 1992 I was still compos mentis just. I think some of the others stayed there without knowing that they are not, if you know what I mean' - Michael Foot 'The worst thing about Old Age is the speeding up of time I had a party for my 50th birthday and another for my 60th, three or four years later' - Raymond Briggs

About this title

Review:

"The worst thing about old age is the speeding up of time ... I had a party for my fiftieth birthday and another for my sixtieth three of four years later." -- Raymond Briggs

"a delightful celebration of the so-called twilight years, which includes a rich selection of ponderings and wise words from the famous and not-so famous." -- Daily Mail

From the Publisher:

A complete gem for the young at heart and fans of 'Now We Are Sixty'.

The wit and wisdom of thirty sprightly wise old birds collected and illustrated by the author and illustrator of Granpa and Gumpy's Outing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0747560854
• ISBN 13: 9780747560852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Rose Foot
• Illustrator: John Burningham