{"product_id":"9781429918336","title":"Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe amazingly insightful, funny and brilliant record of Michael Palin's prime years as a member of the famed comedic group, Monty Python.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys---Jones and Gilliam---and Eric Idle came together and changed the face of British comedy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is but only part of Palin's story. Here is his growing family, his home in a north London Victorian terrace, which grows as he buys the house next door and then a second at the bottom of the garden; here, too, is his solo effort---as an actor, in \u003ci\u003eThree Men in a Boat,\u003c\/i\u003e his writing endeavours (often in partnership with Terry Jones) that produces \u003ci\u003eRipping Yarns\u003c\/i\u003e and even a pantomime. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e         Meanwhile Monty Python refuses to go away: the hugely successful movies that follow the TV (his account of the making of both \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Grail\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLife of Brian\u003c\/i\u003e movies are page-turners), the at times extraordinary goings-on of the many powerful personalities who coalesced to form the Python team, the fight to prevent an American TV network from bleeping out the best jokes on U.S. transmission, and much more---all this makes for funny and riveting reading. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e         The birth and childhood of his three children, his father's growing disability, learning to cope as a young man with celebrity, his friendship with George Harrison, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these diaries. A perceptive and funny chronicle, the diaries are a rich portrait of a fascinating period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wealth of fascinating stuff about Monty Python.\"\u003cbr\u003e---\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127392682224,"sku":"9781429918336","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429918336_p0.jpg?v=1769902034","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429918336","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}