Highlights

This book describes highlights and the occasional lowlight of Michael Newman's life. It will make you laugh shudder and reflect. Newman takes you to far-flung places - Jamaica America South Africa France and England - with a witty mind and a cross-cultural vision of the world. This is a personal memoir delighting in the inconsistencies of life. Among the highlights he talks his way out of a mugging in Kingston Jamaica tells the world's longest joke in Covent Garden joins a picket line of a clothing workers' strike in Johannesburg and finds himself in Paris during the riots that swept across France in May 1968. Among the lowlights he flies a car in north Pakistan and comes a social cropper in Dallas.