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John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Mortimer can't resist a little tease from time to time: the Denning interview is written in the style of a Denning judgement, whilst passages "in the style of" also creep into the interviews with Graham Greene, Frederick Forsyth and Dick Francis, amongst others. But he's never brutal: Gielgud is teased about his famous unworldliness, but his even more famous cottaging conviction is never mentioned. Even the people with whom Mortimer really doesn't manage to establish a rapport get a serious attempt to understand what drives them (most notably policeman James Anderton and computer whizz-kid Robb Wilmot).
You probably won't get very much out of this unless you were around in the UK in the early 80s and remember who these assorted celebrities were, but given that caveat, it's certainly worth 50p of anyone's money. ( )