Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks - The Essential Alan Coren

Informationen zum Autor Alan Coren (27 June 1938 - 18 October 2007) was an English humourist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for nine years was the editor of Punch magazine. Klappentext 'Brilliant' Melvyn Bragg 'Perfect' A.A. Gill 'Wickedly good' Clive James 'A master' Victoria Wood The Queen at a loose end playing I-Spy, QPR fans arguing at the cheese counter, prank phone calls to Mao Tse-Tung, the Roman tax collector Glutinus Sinus dealing with the mud-caked Britons, Gatling guns, an Italian driving school, herons, hearing aids, hosepipe bans, talking parrots . . . Welcome to the wonderful world of the late, great Alan Coren. 'Coren is not just a funny writer but a comic genius.' Observer 'A master humorist!' Daily Telegraph The ultimate anthology of the humorous writing of the 'Sage of Cricklewood'. Zusammenfassung The ultimate anthology of the humorous writing of the 'Sage of Cricklewood'.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alan Coren
• Con la collaborazione di: Giles Coren (Editore), Victoria Coren (Editore)
• Editore: Canongate Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.06.2009
• EAN: 9781847673213
• ISBN: 978-1-84767-321-3
• Pagine: 448
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Fumetti, cartoni, humour, satira; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, HUMOR / Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture, Humour, Humour collections and anthologies