{"product_id":"what-am-i-still-doing-here-9781444708691","title":"What Am I Still Doing Here","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e''Unremittingly glorious. I and the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table demanding it until we are satisfied.''\u003cbr\u003eStephen Fry\u003cbr\u003eLoveable... Dreadful... Amazing... Learned... Baroque... Exquisite... Utterly wonderful... Uplifting... Stupendously Acute... Very scary... Genuinely mad...Having written acclaimed biographies of uncompromising and glittering geniuses such as Peter Sellers, Laurence Olivier, \u003ci\u003eCarry On\u003c\/i\u003e star Charles Hawtrey, and Anthony Burgess, of \u003ci\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/i\u003e fame, Roger Lewis, rotund, dark and difficult, has at long last stumbled upon the greatest monster of all - himself.As with bestselling and beloved \u003ci\u003eSeasonal Suicide Notes\u003c\/i\u003e, in this new book Lewis has produced a funny and appalling self-portrait, crammed with his clashes and frustrations.The calamities he describes, however, such as coming a pathetic fifth in the Oxford Chair of Poetry Election or throwing a party in what turned out to be a Cornish old peoples'' home,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNothing funnier or wiser has been published all year. * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eSuperb, splenetic, self-lacerating, hilarious and heartrendering. -- Gyles Brandreth\u003cbr\u003eUproariously funny, tremendously clever and irresistibly lovable. -- Rupert Christiansen\u003cbr\u003eThe jokes come thick and fast. * Express *\u003cbr\u003eA liberating, life-affirming read. * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eEnormously entertaining * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eWonderfully funny * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e'Unremittingly glorious. I and the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table demanding it until we are satisfied.' * Stephen Fry *\u003cbr\u003eThere is only one writer alive today who is as mordantly funny as Kingsley Amis, as acute about human misery as Philip Larkin, and as brilliant in skewering pretension and vanity as both. His name is Roger Lewis... Nothing funnier or wise has been published all year. If you love someone buy them this book. If they don't appreciate the gift then purge them from your life. * Michael Gove, Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e'Uproariously funny, tremendously clever and irresistibly lovable' * Rupert Christiansen, Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e'Roger Lewis's new memoir takes us on an anarchic rollercoaster ride through what is probably the nearest thing to an autobiography he will ever write. Numerous hilarious routines jostle in the pages for attention. Lewis's strength is that behind all his acrobatics there is a richly stocked intellect at the controls. Stylistically he is ultramodern, a deracinated 'everyman; for the 21st century. * Duncan Fallowell, Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e'The funniest book of the year. What Am I Still Doing Here?  by Roger Lewis is a wonderfully splenetic journal - part-diary, part-diatribe - by a man who rages with an indignant eloquence against the modern world. But Lewis' furious rants are never far from hilarity, and his anger is redeemed by flashes of pur poetry. Like all the best comics, Lewis is a disappointed optimist rather than an outright cynic, and it's this thwarted idealism which makes this such a liberating, life-affirming read.' * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e'The jokes come thick and fast, the humour runs deep and dark. Among the belly laughs, Roger Lewis gifts us plenty of thought-provoking diamonds.' * Graham Ball, Sunday Express *\u003cbr\u003eHe can be lethally catty and he also has an unfailingly sharp eye for absurdity. He is wonderfully funny, with a uniquely skewed take on the world.' * John Preston, Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e'There's nobody else in the history of the world who is simultaneously as crude and dangerous or so gentle and poetic... Lewis, with his original and eloquent voice is nothing less than heroic.' * Esquire *\u003cbr\u003e'Lewis is a marvellously wayward spirit, as well-versed in lavatory humour as in the classics, capable of taking in the gutter and the stars at a single glance.' 5* * The Lady *\u003cbr\u003e'Enormously entertaining... It is generous, sincere and intelligent, and shows that Lewis is more than just the angry buffoon he paints himself as.' * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eWhat Am I Still Doing Here? by Roger Lewis is one of those reads that is full of grumpy, thunderous, brilliantly funny observations * Robert Bathurst, star of Downton Abbey, Daily Express *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885652259159,"sku":"9781444708691","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444708691.jpg?v=1722537228","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-am-i-still-doing-here-9781444708691","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}