George Melly (1926–2007)
Auteur van Revolt into Style: Pop Arts in Britain
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Alfred Wallis, Paintings from st. Ives 1 exemplaar
Mixed Doubles (AYCKBOURN) 1 exemplaar
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The Best of George Melly [UK Import] 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Melly, Alan George Heywood
- Geboortedatum
- 1926-08-17
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2007-07-05
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
- Opleiding
- Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Beroepen
- jazz singer
- Relaties
- Melly, Diana (wife)
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- 27
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- 2
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- 428
- Populariteit
- #57,056
- Waardering
- 4.0
- Besprekingen
- 8
- ISBNs
- 38
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- 2
Similarly, he made no attempt to conceal anything in his several volumes of memoirs. Melly was an unusually candid autobiographer with an admirable willingness to highlight aspects of his behaviour which other memoirists might prefer not to mention. I first read this as a teenager, shortly after it came out, and remember finding much of it deliciously naughty. Inevitably, it seems rather less so now, but remains as funny as it ever was. This time round I think I better appreciated just how well-written it is. Melly captures the period detail with some skill, and conveys an exhilarating sense of a young man discovering the possibilities of life, as well as casting an occasionally quizzical eye on the pretensions and self-deceptions of his former self.
This is a wonderfully entertaining book. ‘Good time George’, as he was known, was such an amiable writer; his truly unconventional and libertarian spirit shine from every page.… (meer)