Roger Bray

Underdressing

"Blue Cheese Blues", "Putney Chutney" and Other Lockdown Doggerel
Illustrator: Roberts, Nicholas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In spring 2020, after what already seemed an eternity of lockdown I decided to lighten the mood with a little doggerel. Mostly it was in limerick form, occasionally in another meter. Usually it was daily, sometimes twice a day. There were times, as my wife attempted to communicate, when my glazed stare betrayed a desperate search for an unlikely rhyme. The news generally proved a rich source. Topics ranged from people's frustrated desire for a trip abroad to football matches televised with recorded crowd chants. Very occasionally there came a day when, to approximate the words of the great Tom Lehrer after Henry Kissinger had been awarded the Nobel peace prize, I worried that satire was dead. But fortunately it always popped its head up again. This collection is not intended to obscure the many personal tragedies that have resulted from the pandemic. But I have sought to avoid visiting the dark side. I hope it makes you smile.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu Press
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 97g
• ISBN-13: 9781913294823
• ISBN-10: 191329482X
• Artikelnr.: 60713673

Autorenporträt

Roger Bray is an award winning travel writer and reporter on the travel industry. He has written for several major UK newspapers and is co-author of a history of the post war holiday revolution. He currently contributes to the over-50s website silvertraveladvisor.com. He has two married sons and four grandchildren, of whom he has not seen nearly enough in these trying times. A veteran skier and Francophile, he usually prefers his work to be taken seriously. But COVID-19 has stood everything on its head.