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The Letters of Oscar Wendlow - Oscar Wendlow

 

Description: ISBN 0752213393 / Genre: Humour / Black-cab driver and portrait painter to the stars, Oscar Wendlow writes to the great and good - Melvyn ... more
The Letters of Oscar Wendlow - Oscar Wendlow ... Bragg, Peter Stringfellow and William Hague amongst others - with bizarre requests to which his correspondents reply with varying degrees of good grace.

Newest Review: ... problems, social problems - they tell you how to make the world a better place all in a two mile cab ride. Oscar has an extra ... more

 ... twist to this speciality – as well as voicing his opinions he likes to write them down. He hasn’t found dooyoo yet but he has found letter writing! I’ll bet we’ve all sat down and thought “I’ll write them a letter! I’ll air my views! I’ll tell ‘em what I REALLY think, what the people on the street REALLY think!” Or maybe you’ve been tempted to write a silly letter just for the laugh, to see what, if any, the reaction would be. Personally, I prefer to...more

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Premium Review The Letters of Oscar Wendlow - Oscar Wendlow: Portrait Painter To The Stars (496 words)
by gorlagon - written on 25/03/01 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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Where shall I start? At the beginning? That is usually best. This book hasn’t really got a beginning though, it’s a series of letters so there is no beginning in the usual sense of the word. I’d like to introduce you to Oscar Wendlow. Oscar likes to write letters, lots of letters, and this book is a compilation of his sometimes audacious and sometimes hilarious correspondence. Oscar is a London black cab driver and has been for over twenty years. As we all know London’s cabbies always have a lot to say for themselves and Oscar Wendlow is no different. As quickly as their meters tick over they offer you solutions to political ...

 

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