The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on His Toe and Other Bourgeois Mishaps

Matthew, Christopher

ISBN 10: 140870465X / ISBN 13: 9781408704653

Published by Little, Brown, 2013, 2nd impression,, 2013

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hardback, 8vo, 162pp, illustrated, signed by the author with a gift inscription to John Julius Norwich, text clean and tight, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 140870465X.

Seller Inventory # 456898

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on His Toe and Other Bourgeois Mishaps
• Publisher: Little, Brown, 2013, 2nd impression,
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140870465X
• ISBN 13: 9781408704653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Tony Ross
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • humour

About this title

Synopsis

The path trodden by the middle-aged middle classes in Britain, smooth though it may appear to the less privileged, is in reality a peculiarly dangerous one, dogged by its own set of terrors, pitfalls and opportunities for social humiliation. In The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on his Toe
Christopher Matthew follows up the huge success of Now We Are Sixty with a collection of mordant, witty, cautionary verses on the subject of the British bourgeoisie and its foibles and failings.

Not only can expensive, enamelled, cast-iron cookware be very dangerous in the wrong hands, but so too can Pilates, open-air opera in evening dress, weekending in Wales with a pug, gastro-tourism in Tuscany, the mid-life parachute jump as an alternative to physiotherapy, and pushing a trolley in Waitrose.

As for the middle-aged Lothario's quest for a younger, Mark Two model, this can all too often end in ignominy rather than fun and games and feather boas in Cap Ferrat.

Sharply observed and gloriously mischievous, The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on his Toe gently punctures the pride and sense of entitlement enjoyed by the pesto-loving middle classes.

About the Author

Christopher Matthew is the author of Now We Are Sixty, When We Were Fifty, The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on his Toe and Dog Treats. He lives in London and Suffolk.