The Summer of a Dormouse – A Year of Growing Old Disgracefully
Inbunden bok. Viking . First edition uppl. 2000. 212 sidor.
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The Summer of a Dormouse – A Year of Growing Old Disgracefully
John Mortimer
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The book is a hardcover with dust jacket. It is read once but in condition as almost new.
Published by Viking in 2000.
First edition
ISBN 0670891061
Protected in a clear plastic wrapper.
Taking as his title Byron's famous description of what life is (a mere "summer of a dormouse"), John Mortimer describes what it's like to be 75 but feel 11. He has all the afflictions that his father had at this age, but retains all his youthful enthusiasms. Mortimer describes the last couple of years which involved plenty of hilarious public duties, like chairing the committee to decide who should go on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, but also private matters like having to be in a wheelchair at glamorous New Labour parties. A paradoxically cheerful and cheering book about growing old gracefully.
Format: 24x16x2 cm, 212 pages.
