Speak After the Beep: Studies in the Art of Communicating with Inanimate and Semi-animate Objects
by Michael Frayn
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Jarvis and Frayn are a truly inimitable pairing - frequent collaborators on-stage, screen and audiobook, they are an eternally popular duo. Michael Frayn began his career as a reporter on UK newspaper The Guardian before becoming a columnist for the same newspaper. Martin Jarvis is a renowned audiobook narrator and his many acting accolades, include a Theater World Award for his performance in the Broadway play By Jeeves. This collection is perfect for anyone who has ever questioned the show more logic behind technobabble, computer jargon and eccentric human idiosyncrasies...that'll be everybody, then! show lessTags
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Michael Frayn is the author of the award-winning "Copenhagen" & twelve other plays, including "Noises Off". The most recent of his nine novels is "Headlong", a New York Times Editor's Choice & Booker Prize finalist. He lives in London. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 828.91407 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English miscellaneous writings English miscellaneous writings 1900- English miscellaneous writings 1900-1999 English miscellaneous writings 1945-1999 Without identifiable literary form
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- PR6056 .R2 — Language and Literature English English Literature 1961-2000
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