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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100618927646
ISBN-139780618927647
eBay Product ID (ePID)66201317
Product Key Features
Book TitleTheodosia and the Staff of Osiris
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicFantasy & Magic, Art & Architecture, Horror, Action & Adventure / General, Animals / Cats, General, People & Places / Europe, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes)
IllustratorYes, Tanaka, Yoko
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorR. L. Lafevers
Book SeriesTheodosia Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
LCCN2008-007277
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromSecond Grade
Grade ToFifth Grade
Dewey Decimal[Fic]
SynopsisTheodosia Throckmorton is in a fix. Allowed to attend a reception given by one of the directors of her parents' museum, she stumbles across Mr. Tetley of the British Museum--in most unusual circumstances! Since Theo has last seen him in a showdown in an ancient Egyptian tomb, his reappearance could mean only one thing: the Serpents of Chaos are back. Once again Theodosia will have to take on secret societies, evil curses, and dark magic too sinister to imagine, especially if it falls into the wrong hands. Blocked at every turn, Theodosia will have to rely on her own skill and cunning--along with a little help from the most unexpected places., From the author of the acclaimed The Life and Death of Peter Sellers , as made into an award-winning film by HBO, and the dark and scabrous Seasonal Suicide Notes , which everybody loves, here at last comes the definitive book about comic genius by a man whom the Sunday Times has hailed as 'brilliantly funny... a comic genius.' Growing up in SOuth Wales, the precocious Roger Lewis longed to lock himself away from the world and listen to bootleg cassettes of The Goon Show and count the fucks (144) and cunts (89) uttered on the Derek and Clive Live LPs. He screamed with horror at Jimmy Clitheroe. He was a connoisseur of Norman Wisdom and Terry-Thomas. He lapped up Marx Brothers films, Ealing films, and On the Buses , which to him was as sinister as Strindberg. Once he reached university, Lewis' love for the art of comedy never waned, and he could never fathom why the grisly hairy-nosed academics considered comedy trivial, comedians frivolous. In Lewis' view, comedy has more lasting significance than tragedy - the supposed pinnacle of art - because comedy, like real life, admits to misrule and incapacity, accepts the inconsequential, harbours extravagance and eccentricity, and endorses the fact that, in the end, nothing quite adds up. This book contains incisive portraits of the world's most treasured performers and complicated personalities - from Chaplin to Tati, Hancock to Hawtrey, Laurel and Hardy to Spike Milligan, Terry Gilliam to Barry Humphries, and Arthur Lowe to Benny Hill, amongst many others. The chapters comparing Kenneth Williams with Francis Bacon, Leonard Rossiter with John Reginald Christie, Groucho Marx with A.J. Ayer, Morecambe and Wise with Gilbert and George, and Joyce Grenfell with Kathleen Ferrier, in particular, will be heralded as criticism and commentary at their most profound and creative. Growing Up With Comedians asks what lurks beneath the public face; where does talent end, ego begin, and periods of madness take over? From pompous control freaks to unpredictable originals, Lewis, as only he knows how, examines the strangeness and hidden sorrow found behind the excrutiating facades. By turns lyrical, poignant, and always insanely perceptive, Growing Up With Comedians is another unforgettable high-heat masterpiece by Roger Lewis.
LC Classification NumberPZ7.L1414Thg 2008
