The Time of Your Life John Burningham

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The Time of Your Life by John Burningham

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Summary

This is a collection of wit and wisdom of 30 sprightly wise old birds. "The worst thing about old age is the speeding up of time... I had a party for my fiftieth birthday and another for my sixtieth, three or four years later", Raymond Briggs.

The Time of Your Life Summary

The Time of Your Life: Getting on with Getting on by John Burningham

Ageing is that part of the future that we try to keep in the future. And 'nobody likes to get old...that doesn't mean to say you have to be an old fart sitting in the pub talking about what happened in the 1960s' Mick Jagger. John Burningham has collected fine examples of the wisdom and wit that comes with age from those in the know, woven with a rich selection of quotes and fifty poignant drawings by Burningham himself.

The Time of Your Life Reviews

"It's a law of script writing that scenes get shorter and the action speeds up towards the end. In childhood, the afternoons spread out for years. For the old, the years flicker past like the briefest of afternoons. The playwright Christopher Fry, now ninety-three, told me that after the age of eighty, you seem to be having breakfast every five minutes. These film scenes, building to an inevitable climax, tend less to tragedy than farce. Dying is a matter of slapstick and prat falls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

About John Burningham

John Burningham, two-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, is the celebrated author and illustrator of many much-loved books for children, including Avocado Baby, Borka, Mr Gumpy's Outing, Trubloff, Grandpa and Cloudland, and of two illustrated books for adults, England and France.

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Sku

GOR000546405

ISBN 13

9780747564713

ISBN 10

074756471X

Title

The Time of Your Life: Getting on with Getting on by John Burningham

Author

John Burningham

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

2003-11-03

Number of pages

288

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us