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Clinging to the Wreckage By John Mortimer

Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer


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Summary

Relates the pleasures and paradoxes of John Mortimer's early life. This autobiography takes readers from his unusual childhood to the dilemmas of his life in the law.

Clinging to the Wreckage Summary

Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life by John Mortimer

In the first volume of his bestselling autobiography, novelist, playwright and former barrister John Mortimer relates all the pleasures and paradoxes of his early life. With wit and style, he takes us from his unusual childhood (his father, a blind barrister, insisted that his wife read the sordid details of his divorce briefs in public) to the dilemmas of his life in the law (one of his clients indignantly declared, 'Your Mr Rumpole could've gotten me out of this, why the hell can't you!'). Filled with laughter and a sense of the absurd, "Clinging to the Wreckage" is an extraordinary insight into the rich life of one of the great figures of our time.

About John Mortimer

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

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GOR003577795
9780140068603
0140068600
Clinging to the Wreckage: Another Part of Life by John Mortimer
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
1984-01-01
224
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