The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures

Name: The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780571277315
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By Stephen Pile

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The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile celebrates the art of spectacular failure with wit and originality. The book presents 235 hilarious stories of colossal blunders from around the globe, showcasing those who transform simple tasks into extraordinary disasters. From the Outer Hebrides to America and beyond, it highlights the shining immortals of getting it wrong, including a Syrian driver who set a world record for getting lost under Sat-nav guidance.
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This book is perfect for readers who enjoy humour, particularly those who appreciate absurd and inventive stories about human folly. Fans of lighthearted collections and those who like to laugh at the unexpected will find it thoroughly entertaining.

Celebrate the very best in failure with this all new collection of outrageously funny misadventures from the author of the classic number one bestseller The Book of Heroic Failures.

With Stephen Pile's The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures, celebrate the very best in failure with this all new collection of outrageously funny misadventures from the author of the classic number one bestseller The Book of Heroic Failures.

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Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in our field of study, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. Any of us could make a mistake, but these great souls can turn the simplest everyday task into a scene of jaw-dropping wonder. These are the immortals.

Stephen Pile, President of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and author of the number-one bestseller The Book of Heroic Failures, takes us on an all-new and mind-bendingly hilarious tour to celebrate the most spectacular and absurd failures of the last twenty-five years.

Failure is everywhere. There are 235 stories in total spread from the Outer Hebrides to America, Ireland, Australia, Europe and Africa. The Syrian entry, for example, holds the world all-comers record as the driver who got most lost under Sat-nav direction (5000 miles).

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571277315

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 October 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Stephen Pile was a journalist for far too long and is the author of The Book of Heroic Failures. He is also the Founder and President of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and was the Artistic Director of the First International Nether Wallop Arts festival in 1984, which came about by accident. The next week Stephen met his wife, had three children, became a television critic for 14 years and hasn't been out of the house since, which is why Britain looks so strange and changed.

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