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John-Paul Flintoff is a bit of a one-off: a man who embarks on a spiritual pilgrimage by outsourcing his life to Bangalore, then hooks up with Mormons and Buddhists (well, Richard Gere), on a quest for truth and fulfilment. His journey is like a twenty-first century Candide, learning that life's satisfactions, and some kind of response to the concerns of economic meltdown and climate change, lie in learning how to make things for oneself, and mending things that fall apart. Along the way, Flintoff paints pictures with Brit-art oddball Billy Childish, gets apprenticed in Savile Row, grows his own food and spins fibre from nettles. Daringly, he also turns his book over to his wife Harriet, who likes nothing better than a fancy spa and a shop at Liberty's. The results are comic, heartwarming and inspiring.
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This is my kind of book: how to make sense of the modern world. Hats off! (Chris Stewart)
Very funny - I hope it does well (Jane Garvey Woman’s Hour)
Wonderful, amazing, funny and warm! (Tom Hodgkinson)
I don't really understand what you are doing but I wish you every success (Vivienne Westwood)
Praise for Comp: Hilarious, hair-raising narrative - supremely entertaining (Daily Telegraph)
Flintoff has the timing of a natural (Sunday Times)
Very readable in an Adrian Mole-possessed-by-Satan kind of way. (Spectator)
Makes The Lord of the Flies look like a soft-soap cover up (Guardian)
Leading journalist John-Paul Flintoff makes a strong case that individuals can have an impact... very funny, but makes a serious point that is extremely relevant to today. (Daisy Leitch The Lady 2010-07-13)
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What happens when a man, dazzled like most of us by hi-tech, happy to have his suits made by robots in New York, sets out to find the meaning of life?
John-Paul Flintoff's improbable and very funny book charts a journey through call centres and allotments, rat-catching and Savile Row tailors, to some kind of enlightenment. It is also a book about a man who learns how to crochet - in public.
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- EditoreProfile Books
- Data di pubblicazione2010
- ISBN 10 1846688922
- ISBN 13 9781846688928
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine256
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