The Tournament by John Clarke
Paris has gone crazy and the tennis courts will soon be awash with celebrities. There are flags and banners everywhere. Every hotel is booked out. The queues at the stadium are huge, and the worldwide television audience is tipped to be in the billions. If these players aren't careful they're going to be among the most famous people on earth. Jean Cocteau wants the lights cut. William Burroughs tests positive to 12 banned substances and is sent home. Franz Kafka is disorientated by the presence of his father in the stands. Pavlova dashed from side to side like a dervish. Dali appeared on a silver tray with an apple in his mouth and Nijinsky stood at the net, glaring at a cloud. Albert Einstein, A. A. Milne, Amelia Earhart, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Enid Blyton are here. Picasso, Freud and Tony Chekhov, Garbo and Nellie Melba; they will all fight it out, round by round, until the amazing final on Centre Court.
- 'enjoy his mastery of the sporting cliche and his unerring satirical skills' The Australian
John Clarke was born in New Zealand where, earlier in his career he won TV Personality of the Year (twice) and Entertainer of the Year. In 1977 he moved to Australia where he worked in radio, television, stage and film. Highlights there include The Games, a highly successful and award winning spoof TV series about setting up the Sydney Olympic games, and Crackerjack, Australia's biggest box-office movie in 2002. He has also written The Even More Complete Guide to Australian Verse in which it was discovered that most of the world's most pre-eminent poets came, in fact, from Australia. Apart from regular television and radio appearances John Clarke works as a writer and performer, as a script-editor and as a producer. He has a film and TV production company with Sam Neill and another old friend from New Zealand.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841197814 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841197815 |
| Title | The Tournament |
| Author | John Clarke |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2003-06-19 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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