The Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obit

by Telegraph Group Limited (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $4.25

  A richly unpredictable medley of twentieth-century lives, a study in miniature, reflecting the last century at its most picturesque, poignant and absurd.

  'Like going on an all-night spree with alluring strangers one has just met in a smart bar: unpredictable, vivacious, happy, with glimpses of a world of sumptuous elegance and hints of romance, but above all lingeringly memorable.' TLS'

  '[Hugh Massingberd's] series of obituaries... have proved themselves to be marvellously durable bedside books , . His touch, both as an author and an editor, was invariably light . Although the foibles and eccentricities of the dead were often hilariously evoked (and the latest book, like its predecessors, makes you roar - shake - with laughter), it never nudges you in the ribs, never comes dancing up to you arrayed in cap and bells. It is in every sense a labour of love. An authentic Massingberd obituary never belittles its subject.' Literary Review