Careless Talk Michael Richardson

Name: Careless Talk von Michael Richardson
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Careless Talk Michael Richardson

Young Morley Charles worries that he's just not clever enough for the city's art school. But the lies he tells to advance himself in the eyes of friends, family and the local priest bring all manner of trouble. Imagine if Michael Frayn's Spies had been set in Birmingham with the daftest, funniest, most self-deluding schoolboy at its heart. Well, here is Morley Charles again, the inventive and sexually curious hero of The Pig Bin, but now he has artistic ambitions and anxieties about links between his family and the Blackshirts. Careless Talk is a glorious comedy of misunderstandings set in a seemingly ordinary end-of-wartime suburb.

Careless Talk Bewertungen

The dialogue is brilliantly lively and the period scene setting beautifully rendered; it can make you laugh out loud * Independent *
Richardson has a gift for idiomatic dialogue. But what is most impressive in these novels is the recreation of the class consciousness of the 1940s * Guardian *
A wonderfully warm and humorous evocation of a late 1940s Birmingham childhood, whose underlying sharpness never allows it to descend into simple nostalgia * D.J. Taylor *
A moving and often very funny account of the painful adolescence of a young art student shortly after the end of World War II. Morley Charles is agonisingly self-conscious; such is the author's skill and accuracy I ended up caring very much about him * David Nobbs *

Über Michael Richardson

MICHAEL RICHARDSON spent his teaching career as head of art in Birmingham secondary schools. His short stories, poems and articles have appeared in the Sunday Times, Mayfair, Private Eye and London Magazine, and his paintings have been widely exhibited. He enjoys walking in areas supplied with old-fashioned pubs not too far from each other, inventing things and, like Morley Charles, masquerading as a foreigner when the occasion demands.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR004049976

ISBN 13

9780955138461

ISBN 10

0955138469

Titel

Careless Talk Michael Richardson

Autor

Michael Richardson

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Profile Books Ltd

Datum

2007-10-01

Anzahl der Seiten

272

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N/A

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