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Douglas Adams will be most fondly remembered for the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series and its idiosyncratic humour. But this biography covers his life from his days as a struggling sketch writer to his untimely death at the age of 49 in May 2001.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- M. J. Simpson
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 406
- Publisher
- Justin, Charles & Co., Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780340824894
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“DOUGLAS ADAMS TOUCHED THE LIVES of many people, not just through his work but as a person and as a personality.”
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