by John Mortimer · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141193847
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«Clinging to the Wreckage» is the autobiography of John Mortimer, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
First part of John Mortimer's memoirs: a solitary childhood in the English countryside, a nonconformist lawyer father who hides his blindness and fights insects in the garden, a vague and patient mother, dreams of being a tap dancer, boarding school with a one-man communist cell, and his father's push towards the law, a career that inspired his literary work.
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics collection; the work was originally published in 1982.
For readers of memoirs and biographies of British writers and for those who want to know John Mortimer, creator of Horace Rumpole.
Sir John Clifford Mortimer was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. He is best known for short stories about a barrister named Horace Rumpole, adapted from episodes of the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey also written by Mortimer.
