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Description for So, Anyway...
Hardcover. Tells the story of how a shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. This title is punctuated from time to time with the author's thoughts on topics as diverse as the nature of comedy, the relative merits of cricket and waterskiing, and the importance of knowing the dates of all the kings and queens of England. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: APB; APF; APT; ASZB; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 748. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good dustwrapper
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who ... Read more
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Random House Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847946966
SKU
KSS0007679
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare in 1939 and educated at Clifton College and at Cambridge. He achieved his first big success in the West End and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. He went on to co-found the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe, writing and performing in the TV series and in films that include ... Read more
Reviews for So, Anyway...
"Vivid, ridiculously entertaining, and, at times, explosively funny... Cleese is a master of crisp comic prose: his elegant syntax and sudden absurdities would have PG Wodehouse raising a martini glass. So, Anyway... glows with fairness, kindness, gentleness and loyalty."
Nicholas Barber
Sunday Express
"Told with considerable charm and a refreshing amount of candour, the story is one ... Read more
Nicholas Barber
Sunday Express
"Told with considerable charm and a refreshing amount of candour, the story is one ... Read more