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This: A Blast of Triumph and Disaster

By John Tippey

This: A Blast of Triumph and Disaster

By John Tippey

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'THIS' is a colorful adventure story, Funny, sad, loving, always entertaining. It follows the triumphs and disasters of young Jim Tyler, an orphaned Lancashire lad, through a poignant childhood and his early days in a naval training ship. It broods with him in a lifeboat in the middle of the North Atlantic and treks his meandering climb from working class obscurity to the dizzy heights of almost total anonymity in the world of film and television. Throughout, 'This' interweaves an unending barrage of misadventures with those universally appreciated old standbys, sex and ribald depravity, highlighting conflicts and storms in teacups across oceans, Europe, the Mediterranean, Lebanon, North and South Africa, Australia, China, even the contested wastes of a bleak Antarctica. 'This' documents skullduggery and history in the making, as a resourceful optimist tilts and collides with the world of advertising, and lurks the corridors or political power in London. It ricochets on a roller coaster through Hollywood and the guarded underbelly of high finance in Switzerland and Luxemburg, eventually soaring the dizzy heights with one of Jim's films gracing the screen in a Royal Command Performance, only to crash and burn in the wreckage of lost love. 'This' is a saga of wonder and suspense. One of life's great treats, don't miss it.
Product details
Number of Pages:
492
Release Date:
2003-10-21
Publication Date:
2003-10-01
Publisher:
Xlibris Corporation
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1413421202
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