
Now We Are Sixty
20th Anniversary Edition
Christopher Matthew(Author)
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Published on 14. October 1999
Book
Hardback
112 pages
978-0-7195-5979-2 (ISBN)
Description
For those turning sixty, this new edition of Christopher Matthew's tribute to A. A. Milne's classic poems contains fresh material as well as the old favourites.
'A wonderful present to sixty-year-olds' Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph
When Christopher was six, the poems of Milne were always on hand to reassure him that other children were just as puzzled and naughty and silly as he was, and that grown-ups could be even sillier.
When he turned sixty, he decided it was high time there was an equally reassuring volume for those of his generation who were not only more confused than ever, but were losing their teeth, their hair and, all too often, their car keys.
What he did twenty years ago was to take some of Milne's best-loved poems from Now We Are Six for an older audience, with results that are often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising one is not as young as one once thought, and not feeling quite as chipper as one once did; while others address some of the more disconcerting problems of modern life such as mobile telephones on trains, unsocial behaviour, traffic jams and the internet.
'A wonderful present to sixty-year-olds' Auberon Waugh, Daily Telegraph
When Christopher was six, the poems of Milne were always on hand to reassure him that other children were just as puzzled and naughty and silly as he was, and that grown-ups could be even sillier.
When he turned sixty, he decided it was high time there was an equally reassuring volume for those of his generation who were not only more confused than ever, but were losing their teeth, their hair and, all too often, their car keys.
What he did twenty years ago was to take some of Milne's best-loved poems from Now We Are Six for an older audience, with results that are often hilarious, sometimes rueful and always thought-provoking. Some verses are about realising one is not as young as one once thought, and not feeling quite as chipper as one once did; while others address some of the more disconcerting problems of modern life such as mobile telephones on trains, unsocial behaviour, traffic jams and the internet.
Reviews / Votes
A wonderful present to sixty-year-olds -- Auberon Waugh * Daily Telegraph * Very funny and very clever -- Simon Hoggart * Guardian * I absolutely love it -- Sheridan Morley * Daily Express * Hilarious -- Valerie Grove * Oldie * A charming book * Herald *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Product notice
Trade binding
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7195-5979-2 (9780719559792)
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Christopher Matthew
Now We Are Sixty
E-Book
10/2013
1st Edition
John Murray
€3.99
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Person
Apart from Now We Are Sixty, Christopher Matthew is best known for his Diary of a Somebody and its accident-prone hero Simon Crisp, whom Sheridan Morley called 'one of the greatest comic characters of our time'. More recently he has published The Old Man and the Knee and three volumes of humorous verse - The Man Who Dropped the Le Creuset on His Toe, Dog Treats and A Bus Pass Named Desire - now collected in one volume under the title A Triple Decker Treat: Collected Poems for Old Dogs and Young Hearts. He lives in London and Suffolk.