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- Book Synopsis
- 101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer.Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They speak, or don't speak. They get on, or fall out. They laugh, they cry, are excited, are indifferent.One on One is a chain of 101 extraordinary but true encounters, from Tolstoy rumbling Tchaikovsky in 1876 to George Galloway baiting Michael Barrymore in 2006. The Royal Family giggle at T.S. Eliot, Walter Sickert draws the curtains on the carol-singing Edward Heath, Youssoupoff assassinates Rasputin, Marilyn Monroe commissions Frank Lloyd Wright.Circular in its construction, panoramic in its breadth, One on One is a book like no other.'Brown's glorious book is an original and a complete delight' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times, Books of the Year
- About The Author
- Craig Brown has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for Private Eye since 1989. He has written for a widevariety of publications, including the Daily Mail, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Spectator. His books include One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and Ma'am Darling, which won the James Tait Black award.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780007360642
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- 4th Estate, (05 July 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 358
- Weight
- 260 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 22 mm
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