Speak After the Beep: Studies in the Art of Communicating with Inanimate and Semi-animate Objects

by Michael Frayn (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.36

  A collection of writings by novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, which are based on his column in the Guardian , covering the pomposities and inanities of public announcements, fashionable conversations and self-advertising of all kinds. From News at Ten on Hamlet to an extra chapter in the Book of Genesis describing the week after creation; from airline stewards' briefings to a new opera, The Magic Mobile , in which Papageno tries frantically to phone home from the airport, Frayn displays a accurate ear for the ludicrous prose styles of modern life.

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  Paperback
  1997

  $3.36

  A collection of writings by Michael Frayn, based on his column in The Guardian, covering the pomposities and inanities of public announcements, fashionable conversations and self-advertising of all kinds.