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Eccentric lives, the Daily Telegraph book of 21st century obituaries, edited by Andrew M. Brown

eng

collective biography

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Eccentric lives

1346308223

edited by Andrew M. Brown

the Daily Telegraph book of 21st century obituaries

In the late 1980s the Daily Telegraph transformed the traditionally dry and stolid world of obituaries, ushering in a new way of writing about the dead that was vivid, gently subversive and richly comic. Telegraph obituaries became a byword for entertaining journalism, celebrated for their deadpan tone and sympathetic eye for human quirks and eccentricities. Here is a gallery of the most entertaining of these eccentric lives from the recent past, most of them never before published in book form. They amply demonstrate that in an age of committees and bureaucracy and increasing pressure to conform, eccentrics of all kinds have continued to thrive. From the oddball to the prophet, they have ploughed their own furrow. These miniature biographies are charming, funny, often moving, but always compulsively readable

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Eccentric lives, the Daily Telegraph book of twenty-first century obituaries