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01824aam a2200289 i 4500 001 5BC198C8D44011EDBB4D5B0C4EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230406010038 008 220805s2022 enka e 000 0ceng d 020 $a 191441487X 020 $a 9781914414879 035 $a (OCoLC)1346308223 040 $d SILO 245 00 $a Eccentric lives : $b the Daily Telegraph book of 21st century obituaries / $c edited by Andrew M. Brown. 264 1 $a Lewes : $b Unicorn, $c 2022. 300 $a 250 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a 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, most of them never before published in book form. They amply demonstrate that in an age of committees and bureaucracy and increasing pressure to conform, eccentrics of all kinds have continued to thrive. From the oddball to the prophet, they have ploughed their own furrow. These miniature biographies are charming, funny, often moving, but always compulsively readable. 650 0 $a Obituaries $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a Eccentrics and eccentricities $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Biography $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Brown, Andrew M., $e editor. 730 0 $a Daily telegraph (London, England) 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230406010103.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5BC198C8D44011EDBB4D5B0C4EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search