I Must Collect Myself by Maureen Lipman

I Must Collect Myself by Maureen Lipman

Maureen Lipman has the knack of making the everyday supremely entertaining, the ordinary absurd and unexpected. This new collection of pieces sparkles with her inimitable prose and pithy opinions. Encounters in the street, at the hairdresser, in the dressing room, on her travels at home and abroad, indeed wherever she goes, are sharply observed, joyfully and - at times - ruefully recorded. Included too are a selection of brilliant monologues which capture Maureen's voice in wonderfully diverse ways.

'Reading the new collection I am struck by the wit, the depth of recollection and, above all, the humanityThrough her writing Maureen talks to the reader directly, clearly and truthfully ... she makes the reader feel like a trusted friend, privy to gossip from her occasionally glamorous, but always interesting life' The Lady 'Maureen Lipman has the knack of making the everyday supremely entertaining, the ordinary absurd and unexpected. This new collection of pieces sparkles with her inimitable prose and pithy opinions. Encounters in the street, at the hairdresser, in the dressing room, on her travels at home and abroad, indeed wherever she goes, are sharply observed, joyfully and - at times - ruefully recorded. Included, too, are a selection of brilliant monologues which capture the many voices of Maureen in wonderfully diverse ways' Wiltshire View 'Always amusing and warm-hearted rather than waspish, the actress makes a great companion. This collection of newspaper columns, comic monologues and oddball think-pieces reveals that the merry widow has never slept in a tent or scrubbed a floor ... Like all good reporters she keeps her eyes and ears open wherever she goes. Henceforth it will be impossible to hear the phrase "figure of speech" without imagining a "vigorous peach" ' Sunday Telegraph, Christmas Books 'I'm kinder now ... more thoughtful. Maureen Lipman talks frankly about work, love and seeing life through comic-tinted glasses ... Even off duty she's a natural entertainer, doing comic voices and breaking off mid-interview to sing a few lines of a Carpenters song' Front cover interview, Woman's Weekly Magazine 31/12 'A lively variation on the usual memoir recipe' Sunday Express 19/12

The actress and author has triumphed in television (Agony, the British Telecom ads), films (Roman Polanski's The Pianist, on stage (particularly her one-woman show as Joyce Grenfell) and in print (her memoirs and magazine columns). She was married to Bafta Award-winning Jack Rosenthal, who died in 2004. In l999, Maureen Lipman was awarded a CBE and she has won numerous awards for her theatrical and television work.

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ISBN 13	9781847393685
ISBN 10	1847393683
Titel	I Must Collect Myself
Autor	Maureen Lipman
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Simon & Schuster Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2011-09-01
Seitenanzahl	368
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.