Now and then: An autobiography

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Spisovateľ: Castle Roy
Vydavateľ: Robson Books
Rok vydania: 1994
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Katalogové číslo: K8019

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Roy Castle has written a remarkably frank, vivid and often very funny account of his life on and off stage. He also writes with great honesty about his family, his religious faith and, most movingly, about the way in which his successful and 'fun' life was shattered two years ago by the surprise diagnosis of lung cancer... v angličtine, obal, tvrdá väzba, väčší formát, na prednej strane drobné venovanie, 280 strán

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