by John Mortimer · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140291124
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«The Summer of a Dormouse» is a memoir by John Mortimer, published in 2001 by Penguin in paperback (224 pages, in English).
John Mortimer, in his seventies, turns a year of his life into a diary where humour blends with reflection on old age. Between cinema, committees and meals with former prisoners, he observes himself with irony and without self-pity: physical ailments, lapses of memory and the fear of looking foolish become a lucid, bittersweet gaze.
The subtitle of the work is A Year of Growing Old Disgracefully; the Penguin edition is from August 2001.
For readers of humorous memoirs and fans of John Mortimer, creator of Rumpole of the Bailey.
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.
