Name: Time for Lights out
Price: 22.86 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Raymond Briggs
ISBN: 9781787331952

Type

Physical Book

Author

Raymond Briggs

Publisher

Random House

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781787331952

Time for Lights out

Raymond Briggs (Author) · Random House · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Time for Lights out "

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.

Raymond Briggs

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Raymond Briggs (1934-2022) was a British illustrator and writer known for his graphic novels and children's books. His most famous work is The Snowman (1978), a wordless story that became a classic in children's literature and was adapted into an animated movie in 1982. He also stood out with When the Wind Blows (1982), a graphic novel with a more adult tone about the consequences of a nuclear attack.

Other books by him include Father Christmas (1973), Father Christmas Goes on Holiday (1975) and Ethel & Ernest (1998), based on the life of his parents. His innovative style and ability to address both fantasy and complex themes made him an influential figure in illustrated literature.

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