The Worst Date Ever: or How it Took a Comedy Writer to Expose Joseph Kony and Africa's Secret War

Bussmann, Jane

ISBN 10: 0330457659 / ISBN 13: 9780330457651

Editore: Pan,, 2010

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Riassunto:

When scriptwriter Jane Bussmann (South Park, The Fast Show, Brass Eye and Smack the Pony) moved to Hollywood, it was supposed to be the start of something better. But a day job interviewing Paris, Britney and Co. left her trapped in the Golden Age of Stupid. Then she saw a photograph of John Prendergast in Vanity Fair. His day job was ending war. He was also extremely attractive. Jane 'may have inferred she was a Foreign Correspondent', because suddenly she found herself on route to Africa on the trail of this modern-day Indiana Jones.

There was one problem: when she got to Uganda John had left. Alone in a war-torn country, appalled by 25,000 child abductions, Jane must investigate the war crime of the century – to make John fancy her. Combining a maverick heroine, an idealist hero, comic disasters and moving tragedy, this is brilliant storytelling by a hugely talented writer.

‘Jane Bussmann’s romantic odyssey from Hollywood to Uganda is the funniest thing we’ve ever read.’ Instyle Hot List

‘a marvellously maverick approach to the investigation of war crimes.’ Marie Claire Five Stars

‘Imagine The Last King of Scotland written by Shazzer from Bridget Jones’s Diary, and you’d still only get halfway to appreciating Jane Bussmann’s funny, incongruous and artlessly perceptive account… this is one of the funniest books I've read for a long while' The Sunday Times



'hilarious and heart-wrenching' The Spectator

Recensione: `Bussmann proves her skill as a writer in this travelogue that gets off to a hilarious start with the tale of how she ended up in war torn Uganda after acting on a reckless whim. She is irreverent and winningly self-deprecating, especially when writing about her own trials. Comedy and conflict in Africa might sound a tricky marriage, but this is a very amusing page-turner which also portrays an Africa you never read about in the foreign-news pages.' --Time Out , Paperback Pick

`Imagine The Last King of Scotland written by Shazzer from Bridget Jones's Diary, and you'd still only get halfway to appreciating Jane Bussmann's funny, incongruous and artlessly perceptive account of ditching the day job to pursue a chisel-jawed peace negotiator, John Prendergast into the heart of a child-corpse-strewn Ugandan war zone. Such fragile material sounds like an unpromising basis for a humorous memoir. But this is one of the funniest books I've read for a long while, and the "romance" with Prendergast is self-deprecating satire at its finest.'
--Sunday Times

'Wickedly funny chronicle of the author's amorous pursuit of chisel-jawed peace negotiator.'
--Sunday Times

`Marrying vociferous rage with self deprecating humour...this is a marvelously maverick approach to the investigation of war crimes.' --Marie Claire Five Stars

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Titolo: The Worst Date Ever: or How it Took a Comedy...
Casa editrice: Pan,
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good