Keith Dewhurst

Broschiertes Buch

Autumnia

Three Novellas

Beschreibung

Beginning in the mid-20th Century and moving to the 21st, this collection of novellas create a vivid panorama, with a surprising parallel story about the remnants of Shakespeare's acting company as theatres are culture-cancelled in 1649. AUTUMNIA opens with a wartime raid over Germany and closes with its denouement years later. ART MOVERS follows an ex-soldier turned art mover: his van, his lover, the people he meets. AFTER traces an old writer's last days as he faces the past during the Covid pandemic. Beginning in the mid-20th Century and ending in the 21st, Keith Dewhurst's three novellas make a panorama, with a surprising parallel story about the remnants of Shakespeare's acting company as theatres are culture-cancelled in 1649.

Autor

KEITH DEWHURST was born in 1931 and worked in a cotton mill and as a travelling reporter with Manchester United before becoming a playwright. Three of his seventeen stage plays were premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and six, including his adaptation of Flora Thompson's 'Lark Rise', at the National Theatre. He wrote two movies, eighteen TV plays, of which 'Last Bus' won the Japan Prize, and episodes for many series, including the original 'Z-Cars'. He was a Guardian columnist, a member of the Production Board of the British Film Institute, Writer in Residence at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and a presenter of TV arts programmes and a Granada comedy show. He has written two football books and co-wrote (with Jack Shepherd) a theatrical memoir.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenheart Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780957182967
• ISBN-10: 0957182961
• Artikelnr.: 67404787