One on One

Resumen del libro

101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st. Life is made up of individuals meeting one another. They speak, or don't speak.

They get on, or don't get on. They make agreements, which they either hold to or ignore. They laugh, they cry, they are excited, they are indifferent, they share secrets, they say, "How do you do?" Often it is the most fleeting of meetings that, in the fullness of time, turn out to be the most noteworthy.

'One on One' examines the curious nature of different types of meeting, from the oddity of encounters with the Royal Family (who start giggling during a recital by TS Eliot) to those often perilous meetings between old and young (Mark Twain terrifying Rudyard Kipling) and between young and old (the 23-year-old Sarah Miles having her leg squeezed by the nonagenarian Bertrand Russell), to contemporary random encounters (George Galloway meeting Michael Barrymore on Celebrity Big Brother). Ingenious in its construction, witty in its narration, panoramic in its breadth, 'One on One' is a wholly original book.

Biografía del autor

Craig Brown es un conocido escritor humorístico británico. Ha escrito para el famoso diario satírico de actualidad Private Eye durante casi tres décadas y actualmente es columnista del Daily Mail y el Mail on Sunday. Ha colaborado en infinidad de periódicos y revistas, incluidos Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times, The New Statesman, The Spectator, The Guardian y The New York Review of Books. Como autor, su obra ha sido aclamada por crítica y lectores, desde "One on One", sobre 101 encuentros fortuitos de grandes personajes de la historia de la humanidad, que fue preseleccionado para el premio Samuel Johnson, hasta "Max{0026} x02019;am Darling", la biografía en clave de humor de la princesa Margarita, la hermana de la reina Isabel, que ganó el James Tait Black Memorial Prize de biografía y el South Bank Sky Arts Award de literatura. "1, 2, 3, 4: Los Beatles marcando el tiempo" conquistó el prestigioso Baillie Gifford Prize al mejor libro de no ficción de 2020, cuyo jurado afirmó que era "una celebración alegre, irreverente y perspicaz de los Beatles, y un libro profundo sobre el éxito y el fracaso que ha reinventado el arte de la biografía".