Eccentric Lives: The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries

by Andrew M. Brown and Jane Wong

In the late 1980s the Daily Telegraph transformed the traditionally dry and stolid world of obituaries, ushering in a new way of writing about the dead that was vivid, gently subversive and richly comic. Telegraph obituaries became a byword for entertaining journalism, celebrated for their deadpan tone and sympathetic eye for human quirks and eccentricities. Here is a gallery of the most entertaining of these eccentric lives from the recent past,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191441487X
• ISBN13: 9781914414879
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"