Keith Dewhurst

Broschiertes Buch

Dancing Bear

Beschreibung

London, 1980s. It's colourful and fast. It's also dangerous if you've got no money and don't know where to go. And it's a changing city. A city of contrasts: big money being poured into big dreams by men in sharp suits and fast cars. Alongside the developers, politicians vie for glory and think their moment has come. And on the same streets overlooked by their penthouses, lives are lost and homelessness grows. Fighting to find herself in this vivid new world is Claudia and her alter ego, Bunty. The bailiffs are after her, she's broke but not beaten: the big time still beckons and Claudia hasn't quite lost sight of her acting dreams. Meanwhile young Wozzer arrives in the city's crazy midst. A stranger to the streets, he's lost his home but not his starpilot heart. When Claudia and Wozzer's paths cross at London's Camelot restaurant, Claudia recognises a fellow lost soul in need and invites Wozzer to stay. An unlikely friendship blossoms that will underscore their chaotic, heady lives for years to come. Author Keith Dewhurst spent a good deal of his life divided between London and Sydney, Australia. He returned to the UK at the end of the 1980s after a five year absence, finding himself surprised and confused by how much the country had changed. In an effort to come to terms with those changes, Dancing Bear began to emerge, and was written over the course of the next thirty years. A cautionary, contemporary tale of small epic lives played out over three decades as one millennium ends and another begins.

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: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780957182943
• ISBN-10: 0957182945
• Artikelnr.: 61671104