Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Jack Rosenthal has died.
This is incredibly sad news - I didn't even know he was ill. I got into his work via my fondness for his wife Maureen Lipman's many autobiographical books, in which she writes with great wit and affection about her husband, children and mother. They made me realise I was already a fan of Jack's work - Outside Edge in particular. Barmitzvah Boy was wonderful, as were Eskimo Day and Cold Enough For Snow - great, sharp, comic, moving observations of being Northern, or Jewish (or both), parenting, and crossing the class divide, and in his Omnibus profile of a few years ago he came across as a really down-to-earth man, full of warmth and good humour. His wife described meeting him as feeling like 'coming home'.
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This is incredibly sad news - I didn't even know he was ill. I got into his work via my fondness for his wife Maureen Lipman's many autobiographical books, in which she writes with great wit and affection about her husband, children and mother. They made me realise I was already a fan of Jack's work - Outside Edge in particular. Barmitzvah Boy was wonderful, as were Eskimo Day and Cold Enough For Snow - great, sharp, comic, moving observations of being Northern, or Jewish (or both), parenting, and crossing the class divide, and in his Omnibus profile of a few years ago he came across as a really down-to-earth man, full of warmth and good humour. His wife described meeting him as feeling like 'coming home'.
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