Waterstones Now We Are Sixty
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Price: £10.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: For those turning sixty, this new edition of Christopher Matthew's tribute to A. A. Milne's classic poems contains fresh material as well as the old favourites.'A wonderful present to sixty-year-olds' Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph When Christopher was six, the poems of Milne were always on hand to reassure him that other children were just as puzzled and naughty and silly as he was, and that grown-ups could be even sillier. When he turned sixty, he decided it was high time there was an equally reassuring volume for those of his generation who were not only more confused than ever, but were losing their teeth, their hair and, all too often, their car keys. What he did twenty years ago was to take some of Milne's best-loved poems from Now We Are Six for an older audience, with results that are often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising one is not as young as one once thought, and not feeling quite as chipper as one once did; while others address some of the more disconcerting problems of modern life such as mobile telephones on trains, unsocial behaviour, traffic jams and the internet. Waterstones Now We Are Sixty - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780719559792
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ISBN: 9780719559792
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Author: DOPPLEGANGER
Rating: 5
Review: Ex teacher, advertising copywriter, journalist, author, and a popular After Dinner Speaker, Christopher Matthew is no slouch when it comes to mastery of the 'Queens English'. This skill is amply demonstrated in "Now We Are Sixty", where Matthew has taken some of A.A.Milne's best loved poems, and rewritten them for sixty-year-olds, resulting in lots of laughs, some ruefulness, and much thought-provocation. Whilst the original poetry fascinated children (and their parents as well), these adaptations will strike a chord with all of us approaching those golden years of irresponsibility, pensions, grand-children minding, grumbling and 'grey-haired' surfing. On the rear cover there is a taster for the goodies inside:- "They're changing sex at Buckingham Palace!" Murgatroyd mutters with un-disguised malice. "Roger is marrying one of the guard - Bugger whose bearskin reeks of pomade, Called Alice." And there's a lot more where that came from. But a word of approbation for the illustrations by David Eccles which add substantially to the cheer and sometimes the poignancy of this most entertaining book of comic verse.
Author: JC Seekings
Rating: 3
Review: Cheerful happy reading.
