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Eccentric Lives
The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries
Buch von Andrew M Brown
Sprache: Englisch

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In the late 1980s the Daily Telegraph transformed the traditionally dry and stolid world of obituaries, ushering in a new way of writing about the dead that was vivid, gently subversive and richly comic. Telegraph obituaries became a byword for entertaining journalism, celebrated for their deadpan tone and sympathetic eye for human quirks and eccentricities. Here is a gallery of the most entertaining of these eccentric lives from the recent past, most of them never before published in book form. They amply demonstrate that in an age of committees and bureaucracy and increasing pressure to conform, eccentrics of all kinds have continued to thrive. From the oddball to the prophet, they have ploughed their own furrow. These miniature biographies are charming, funny, oft en moving, but always compulsively readable.
In the late 1980s the Daily Telegraph transformed the traditionally dry and stolid world of obituaries, ushering in a new way of writing about the dead that was vivid, gently subversive and richly comic. Telegraph obituaries became a byword for entertaining journalism, celebrated for their deadpan tone and sympathetic eye for human quirks and eccentricities. Here is a gallery of the most entertaining of these eccentric lives from the recent past, most of them never before published in book form. They amply demonstrate that in an age of committees and bureaucracy and increasing pressure to conform, eccentrics of all kinds have continued to thrive. From the oddball to the prophet, they have ploughed their own furrow. These miniature biographies are charming, funny, oft en moving, but always compulsively readable.
Über den Autor
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Andrew M. Brown was born in 1969 and has been obituaries editor at the Daily Telegraph for nine years. He wrote his first obituary, a stock or advance obit of the actor James Garner, more than 20 years ago. He previously edited the opinion pages ofthe Sunday Telegraph and has contributed to The Spectator, The Oldie and the Catholic Herald among many other publications. He is married with three children and lives in south London.

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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781914414879
ISBN-10: 191441487X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Brown, Andrew M
Redaktion: Brown, Andrew M.
Hersteller: Unicorn Publishing Group
Maße: 254 x 178 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew M Brown
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,272 kg
Artikel-ID: 122023139
Über den Autor
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Andrew M. Brown was born in 1969 and has been obituaries editor at the Daily Telegraph for nine years. He wrote his first obituary, a stock or advance obit of the actor James Garner, more than 20 years ago. He previously edited the opinion pages ofthe Sunday Telegraph and has contributed to The Spectator, The Oldie and the Catholic Herald among many other publications. He is married with three children and lives in south London.

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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781914414879
ISBN-10: 191441487X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Brown, Andrew M
Redaktion: Brown, Andrew M.
Hersteller: Unicorn Publishing Group
Maße: 254 x 178 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew M Brown
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,272 kg
Artikel-ID: 122023139
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