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Well Remembered Friends Angela Huth

Well Remembered Friends By Angela Huth

Well Remembered Friends by Angela Huth


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Summary

This treasury of remembrance, fine writing and good lives is the perfect Christmas book.

Well Remembered Friends Summary

Well Remembered Friends: Eulogies on Celebrated Lives by Angela Huth

A fascinating collection of memorial addresses on celebrated lives including WH Auden by Stephen Spender, Peter Cook by Alan Bennett, Kingsley Amis by Martin Amis, Stanley Matthews by Jimmy Armfield, John Thaw by Tom Courtenay and many more. The eulogy is a literary form like no other: to compress a lifetime into minutes, to summon the person, what they meant to their friends, colleagues, and sometimes a wider context, to be moved to grief, laughter, sadness and fond memories, to mix praise for virtue with the acknowledgement of foibles, to choose a few anecdotes from the hundreds available, is a very different art to that of the dry obituarist. Angela Huth has collected some of the sparkling examples of the form -- by or about writers, politicians, actors, sportsmen, academics, and, in some cases, unknown but well-remembered friends.

Well Remembered Friends Reviews

'Touching, funny and intimate' -- Sheila Hancock, Book of the Year, Observer 'Lovely stuff, from flashes of comedy to deep grief' -- Country Life 'The eulogy can be a literary form in which the texture and nuance of a lifetime is compressed into a few supple minutes.' -- Sunday Telegraph 20041114 'Affectionate, amusing, evocative' -- Brian Masters, Spectator 20041114 'A testimonial to the nature of friendship and affection ... robust and humourous, a pleasure to read' -- Times Literary Supplement 20041114 'It will give pleasure for many years to come.' -- Alexander Chancellor, Daily Telegraph 20041114 'A wonderful, if rather tear-inducing, volume to dip into' -- Julian Fellowes, Tatler 20041114 ' This book is worth reading for gaining an insight into preparing a eulogy, but it is also a veritable compendium of the lives of the great and the good, as well as those whose lives had more local impact' -- Church of England Newspaper 20041114 'Well Remembered Friends is a record of some of the finest eulogies to have appeared over the past few years... Instead of providing a morbid meditation on death, it is a stirring tribute to what can be achieved in life' -- Birmingham Sunday Mercury 20041114 'If death is the leveller, here it is the reveller and the very last word in name-dropping' -- John Moran, Irish Times 20041114

About Angela Huth

Angela Huth has written eleven novels, four collections of short stories and plays for stage, radio and television. She lives in Oxford, is married to a don and has two daughters.

Additional information

GOR010849634
9780719566301
0719566304
Well Remembered Friends: Eulogies on Celebrated Lives by Angela Huth
Used - Like New
Paperback
John Murray Press
20061005
480
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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