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Time For Lights Out (Hardcover)
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Time For Lights Out (Hardcover)
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List price R604
Loot Price R503
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You Save R101 (17%)
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'A beloved genius of storytelling and illustration' Observer In his
customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs
contemplates old age and death... and doesn't like them much.
Illustrated with Briggs's inimitable pencil drawings, Time for
Lights Out is a collection of short pieces, some funny, some
melancholy, some remembering his wife who died young, others about
the joy of grandchildren, of walking the dog... He looks back at
his schooldays and his time as an evacuee during the war, and
remembers his parents and the house in which he grew up. But most,
like this one, are about his home in Sussex: Looking round this
house, What will they say, The future ghosts? There must have been
Some barmy old bloke here, Long-haired, artsy-fartsy type, Did
pictures for kiddy books Or some such tripe. You should have seen
the stuff He stuck up in that attic! Snowman this and snowman that,
Tons and tons of tat.
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