Our Times in Rhymes: Being a Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age

Leith, Sam

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A parliament of fools, or a confederacy of dunces? Blethering celebrities and blundering politicians, royal babies and right royal cock-ups, milkshake madness and vegan sausage rolls – and, of course, the long and winding road to Brexit. If ever the times were ripe for a return to the high days of Augustan satire, it’s now – and the Spectator’s literary editor Sam Leith provides it. ‘Our Times in Rhymes’ is a waspish, affectionate and very funny look at the state of our nation as it – let’s be even-handed – teeters on the cliff-edge of a marvellous opportunity. Here is all the insanity and inanity of 2019, month by cherishable month, rendered in galloping comic verse and paired with satirical drawings by the brilliant cartoonist Edith Pritchett.

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Publish Date: 05/12/2019
ISBN: 9781529110197 Category: Tags: , ,

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A parliament of fools, or a confederacy of dunces? Blethering celebrities and blundering politicians, royal babies and right royal cock-ups, milkshake madness and vegan sausage rolls – and, of course, the long and winding road to Brexit.

If ever the times were ripe for a return to the high days of Augustan satire, it’s now – and the Spectator‘s literary editor Sam Leith provides it.

Our Times in Rhymes is a waspish, affectionate and very funny look at the state of our nation as it – let’s be even-handed – teeters on the cliff-edge of a marvellous opportunity. Here is all the insanity and inanity of 2019, month by cherishable month, rendered in galloping comic verse and paired with satirical drawings by the brilliant cartoonist Edith Pritchett.

It makes the perfect Christmas stocking filler for anyone who needs a good laugh at the damnable times we live in.

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Weight 235 g
Dimensions 196 × 149 × 18 mm
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Cover

Hardback

Pages

ix, 129

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K