Letting Go of the Balloon
Reading, Writing, Looking, Listening and Very Occasionally Living Dangerously
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2025
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-820372-6 (ISBN)
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-820372-6 (ISBN)
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A new memoir from the author of The Year of Reading Dangerously about the culture we love as we grow up, why we love it, and why we leave some of it behind. Letting Go of the Balloon is a book about writing, looking, listening and occasionally living dangerously too.
Each chapter in Andy Miller's touching and hilarious book begins with the image of a balloon, in a film or a piece of writing or a painting or a song.
Each one meant something to Andy at some point in his life - Winnie-the-Pooh when he was a child, Withnail and I as a young man, the work of Ian McEwan from the ages of 20 to 46 - And each essay will ask the question, explicitly or implicitly, when is the moment to let go of the balloon? When do we give up? Should we keep rising to see if we can reach the delicious honey at the top of the tree, despite the thinning air and the angry bees? Or do we need to ask someone to shoot us down before we drift out of reach?
Each chapter in Andy Miller's touching and hilarious book begins with the image of a balloon, in a film or a piece of writing or a painting or a song.
Each one meant something to Andy at some point in his life - Winnie-the-Pooh when he was a child, Withnail and I as a young man, the work of Ian McEwan from the ages of 20 to 46 - And each essay will ask the question, explicitly or implicitly, when is the moment to let go of the balloon? When do we give up? Should we keep rising to see if we can reach the delicious honey at the top of the tree, despite the thinning air and the angry bees? Or do we need to ask someone to shoot us down before we drift out of reach?
Andy Miller is a reader, author and editor of books. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, Esquire and Mojo. His first book ‘Tilting at Windmills: How I Tried to Stop Worrying and Love Sport’ was published in 2002; his acclaimed study of the Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society LP followed in 2004.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.03.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 204 mm |
| Gewicht | 270 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-00-820372-5 / 0008203725 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-820372-6 / 9780008203726 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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