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Party Pieces - From Do Come to Please Go (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Party Pieces - From Do Come to Please Go (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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List price R478
Loot Price R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
You Save R83 (17%)
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Today, for instance, they arranged a birthday party for me...They'd
really pushed the boat out - lots of cakes, jellies, crisps, etc.
And a great pile of sweetie-bags for me. Great, I thought. Finally
my parents are giving me the lifestyle I deserve. Then they went
and spoiled it by inviting a whole bunch of other toddlers to share
the goodies ' - Simon Brett, Little Sod. Party Pieces takes the
reader through the course of the party, from conception to its,
sometimes messy, aftermath. Judith Martin gives us Miss Manners'
Guide to Excruciatingly Bad Behaviour on parties; Virginia Graham
writes bitingly of the cocktail party, and Ogden Nash of the couple
nervously waiting for their party to begin, in 'The Darkest
Half-Hour'. The trials of party games are revealed by Jilly Cooper,
while Virginia Woolf, Noel Coward and Mike Leigh also share their
views. Mixing modern quotes with selections from the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, and including poetry, prose and drama, this is
a wonderful mix of the sharp and acerbic, the funny and wry. A
jolly mixture with a dash of bitters, Party Pieces is the perfect
stocking filler for anyone who's overindulged - and even for those
who haven't.
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