Whether in the English countryside, the center of London, the heart of Tuscany, or the streets of Morocco, he embraces life and work with enthusiasm and compassion, revealing himself as one of the most astute and generous figures of his generation.. In The Summer of a Dormouse, the third installment of his autobiography, he describes what it is like to be sevent
Whether in the English countryside, the center of London, the heart of Tuscany, or the streets of Morocco, he embraces life and work with enthusiasm and compassion, revealing himself as one of the most astute and generous figures of his generation.. In The Summer of a Dormouse, the third installment of his autobiography, he describes what it is like to be seventy-seven years of age but to feel like a child. The Summer of a Dormouse is a warm and charming chronicle of one year in a rich and very full life.When most people his age are in full retirement, John Mortimer is still motoring through life, taking on new projects-working on a film with Zeffirelli in a house in Rome, contriving the renovation of the Royal Court Theatre building, and championing his most passionate cause, prison reform. John Mortimer has led an extraordinary life as a playwright, bestsellTravel filmmaking with Franco Zeffirelli in Italy, dealing with panhandlers in New York also receives his humane and humorous attention. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. ("The situation is, in minor ways, humiliating and comical.") A superb raconteur, the author never forgets that his first duty is to entertain. These can be racy, as in the priceless transcript of a lurid sex case tried with straight face before the very proper House of Lords. By the end, Mortimer makes it clear that, despite his infirmities, he has not lost his zest for life. More serious concerns such as prison reform are also in evidence. Mortimer chronicles his involvement in various good causes, from saving London's Royal Court Theatre to finding a suitable statue to top a vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square. A visit to his dying first wife, Penelope, is especially poignant. From Publishers Weekly Mortimer, a retired barrister and creator of Rumpole, retains his high good humor in this third charming autobiographical volume (whose title comes from ByronAnd it sounded so interesting in the NYTimes review! I feel this book is pure garbage. Marx, lacking almost any power, was no worse than any backroom politician or bitter intellectual nit-picker who writes in the New York Review of Book. Since the 1989 failure of communism, Marxism has fallen into disrepute. And yet harking back to my reading of "The Condition of the Working Class in Manchester in 1843" for a graduate course in field methods I was teaching forty years ago, I can recall the importance of both Marx and Engels' view of the world to my understanding of the inequalities of capitalist industrial society, America's imperialism in Vietnam and Latin America, and the civil rights movement. Henry is a Great American! There are many reasons to read this book. (I hate to say it, but I realize some of this review is my interpolation of Young-Bruehl's book. Then, with delight still at the fingertips, perhaps the champagne-tippling dormouse will serve up yet another rich and textured morsel from a gracious and blessedly
- Title : The Summer of a Dormouse
- Author : John Mortimer
- Rating : 4.62 (387 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-2-22
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 191 Pages
- Asin : 0670899860
- Language : English
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