Well Remembered Friends Eulogies on Celebrated Lives - Hardcover

Huth, Angela

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9780719564871: Well Remembered Friends Eulogies on Celebrated Lives

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719564875 ISBN 13: 9780719564871

Publisher: John Murray, 2004

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A fascinating collection of memorial addresses on celebrated lives including WH Auden by Stephen Spender, Peter Cook by Alan Bennett, Kingsley Amis by Martin Amis, Stanley Matthews by Jimmy Armfield, John Thaw by Tom Courtenay and many more The eulogy is a literary form like no other: to compress a lifetime into minutes, to summon the person, what they meant to their friends, colleagues, and sometimes a wider context, to be moved to grief, laughter, sadness and fond memories, to mix praise for virtue with the acknowledgement of foibles, to choose a few anecdotes form the hundreds available, is a very different art to that of the dry obituarist. Angela Huth has collected come of the sparkling examples of the form -- by or about writers, politicians, actors, sportsmen, academics, and, in some cases, unknown but well-remembered friends.

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About the Author:

Angela Huth has written eleven novels, four collections of short stories and plays for stage, radio and television. She lives in Oxford, is married to a don and has two daughters.

Review:

'This is not a book to be read from beginning to end. It is ideal perhaps for the guest-room, with a scribbled note inside recommending page 442. There you will find Selina Hastings on Hardy Amies - affectionate, amusing, evocative, and above all true.' -- Brian Masters, The Spectator 'Lovely stuff, from flashes of comedy to deep grief' -- Country Life 'Affectionate, amusing, evocative' -- Brian Masters, Spectator 'A testimonial to the nature of friendship and affection ... robust and humourous, a pleasure to read' -- Times Literary Supplement 'The eulogy can be a literary form in which the texture and nuance of a lifetime is compressed into a few supple minutes.' -- Sunday Telegraph 20041114 'It will give pleasure for many years to come.' -- Alexander Chancellor, Telegraph 20041114 'A wonderful, if rather tear-inducing, volume to dip into' -- Julian Fellowes, Tatler 20041114 'Touching, funny and intimate' -- Sheila Hancock, Book of the Year, Observer 20041114 'Well Remembered Friends is a record of some of the finest eulogies to have appeared over the past few years! Instead of providing a morbid meditation on death, it is a stirring tribute to what can be achieved in life' -- Birmingham Sunday Mercury 20041114 'If death is the leveller, here it is the reveller and the very last word in name-dropping' -- John Moran, Irish Times 20041114

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