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Accustomed as I am: The Loneliness of the Long-distance Speaker (Prion Humour C
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- Title
- Accustomed as I am: The Loneliness of the Long-distance Speaker
- ISBN
- 9781853754548
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Accustomed As I Am: the Loneliness of the Long-Distance Speaker
- Item Height
- 178mm
- Publisher
- Welbeck Publishing Group
- Genre
- Humor
- Item Width
- 111mm
- Item Weight
- 226g
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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Basil Boothroyd takes the reader on a comic journey through an era when the likes of the Women's Institute and the Rotary Club were still the social hubs of the nation and needed a steady stream of guest speakers to keep their members entertained. Accustomed As I Am is an intimate portrait and sometime surreal travelogue of his own grim and terrifying experiences on the public speakers' circuit in the wilds of Little England. Addressing everyone from Park Lane black-tie shindigs for corporate clients to the inmates of Pentonville prison and the Edgware Young Women's Mizrachi Society, he is asked to entertain on every subject from the Life-Cycle of the Beaver (with slides) to Transport Through the Ages. While masquerading as a How-to-Book, Boothroyd wilfully loses us in a confusion of slapstick asides and self-effacing comic digressions as he unsuccessfully attempts to navigate the pitfalls of a thankless profession. It's a sordid tale of dingy hotels, bad transport, self-doubts, hecklers, drunks, technical difficulties, misjudged audiences and unsuitable material - instantly and painfully recognizable to anyone who has ever had to sit through a speech or make one themselves.
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Welbeck Publishing Group
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9781853754548
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Book Title
Accustomed As I Am: the Loneliness of the Long-Distance Speaker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Humor
Number of Pages
160 Pages
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Item Height
178mm
Item Width
111mm
Item Weight
226g
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Prion Humour Classics S.
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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