Daydream Believer. Confessions Of A Hero-Worshipper

by HughMassingberd (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.25

  The hugely successful editor of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries turns his gaze inwards, to his own life.Daydream Believer is a wonderfully witty and self-deprecating memoir told through the author's tragi-comic need to worship at the feet of the mighty. Be they school prefects, eccentric uncles, cricketing giants, stars of stage and screen, Hugh Massingberd has been their devoted fan. He has haunted cricket grounds, stage doors and other, more unlikely and outlandish venues longing even for a glimpse of the objects of his veneration. This delicious book is his story and will appeal to all those with a keen sense of the ridiculous, a taste for the bittersweet ironies of unrequited adoration and a dread of being embarrassed.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.73

  'Enchanting ...while writing a series of richly comic recollections which had me laughing out loud every few pages, he has also written a book with much more underlying seriousness and much more to say about the human condition than any Booker prizewinner could achieve' A.N. Wilson, Country Life'Intensely comical ... contains some of the funniest scenes I have seen in print this year' - Jeremy Paxman, Observer''Although en route we do meet plenty of people more famous ... none of them can begin to match the charm of the book's bumbling narrator in his Dickensian progression from weedy daydreamer, to failed solicitor, country squire, genealogist, obituarist and lurker at stage doors. This man is an institution, one of the great English eccentrics of our time.' James Delingpole, Literary Review