Playing for Time (平装) 1585790133

Book Description First published in Britain in 1987, "Playing for Time" now adds some priceless English hilarity to American shelves. It tells of how a bumbling, shy, endearingly inconsequent, and rather Wodehousian young chap--i.e., Jeremy Lewis when young--found a refuge from real life in the "curious, Edenic" limbo of Dublin's Trinity College, where for four years he "applied" himself to the curriculum of idling, boozing, snoozing, and related subjects. Lewis has an uncommonly keen eye for his own feckless oddity back then, and his rich stock of comic anecdotes keeps the laughs coming. From Publishers Weekly For connoisseurs of quirky, amusing British autobiographies, there's Playing for Time by Jeremy Lewis (Cyril Connolly: A Life). First published in Britain in 1987, this memoir covers the Bertie Woosterish author's adventures at school and Dublin's Trinity College, as well as his bumbling efforts at travel abroad (Greece, Central America) and finding a job. Book Dimension : length: (cm)21.2width:(cm)13.7 From Publishers Weekly For connoisseurs of quirky, amusing British autobiographies, there's Playing for Time by Jeremy Lewis (Cyril Connolly: A Life). First published in Britain in 1987, this memoir covers the Bertie Woosterish author's adventures at school and Dublin's Trinity College, as well as his bumbling efforts at travel abroad (Greece, Central America) and finding a job.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. THE SUNDAY TIMES "A fizzly, facetious saga of youth's mishaps." From the Publisher First published in Britain in 1987, "Playing for Time" now adds some priceless English hilarity to American shelves. It tells of how a bumbling, shy, endearingly inconsequent, and rather Wodehousian young chap--i.e., Jeremy Lewis when young--found a refuge from real life in the "curious, Edenic" limbo of Dublin's Trinity College, where for four years he "applied" himself to the curriculum of idling, boozing, snoozing, and related subjects. Lewis has an uncommonly keen eye for his own feckless oddity back then, and his rich stock of comic anecdotes keeps the laughs coming.