Life is made up of individuals meeting one another. They speak, or don't speak. They get on, or don't get on. They make agreements, which they either hold to or ignore. They laugh, they cry, they are excited, they are indifferent, they share secrets, they say "how do you do?" Often it is the most fleeting of meetings that, in the fullness of time, turn out to be the most noteworthy.
ONE ON ONE examines the curious nature of different types of meeting, from the oddity of meetings with the Royal Family (who start giggling during a recital by TS Eliot) to those often perilous meetings between old and young (Gladstone terrifies the teenage Bertrand Russell) and between young and old (the 23 year old Sarah Miles has her leg squeezed by the nonagenarian Bertrand Russell), and our contemporary random encounters on television (George Galloway meets Michael Barrymore on Celebrity Big Brother).
All human life is here, dancing in a circle. Ingenious in its construction, witty in its narration, panoramic in its breadth, ONE ON ONE is a wholly original book.
RRP
$19.99
Availability
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Binding
Paperback
ISBN13
9780007360642
ISBN10
0007360649
Dimensions
130 x 197 mm
Released
02/07/2012
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