Alan Bennett

Writing Home (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. As a memoir it covers the production of his very first play, Forty Years On, which starred John Gieldgud. His television series 'Talking Heads' has become a modern-day classic; as part of the 1960s revue 'Beyond the Fringe' Bennett helped to kick-start the English satire revolution, and has since remained one of our leading dramatists, most recently with The History Boys at the National Theatre.

At the heart of the book is The Lady in The Van, since adapted into a radio play featuring Dame Maggie Smith. It is the true account of Miss Mary Shepherd, a homeless tramp who took up residence in Bennett's garden and stayed for fifteen years. This new edition also includes Bennett's introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George and his more recent diaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571246878
• Artikelnr.: 38227360

Autorenporträt

Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic. The History Boys won numerous awards both at the National Theatre, London, and on Broadway. Also at the NT: The Habit of Art, People and Cocktail Sticks. He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for The Madness of King George, and appeared with Dame Maggie Smith in a radio adaptation of his The Lady in the Van. His collection of prose Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography. Fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories. His most recent publication is Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin.

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Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: In a Manner of Speaking
Past and Present
The Treachery of Books
Leeds Trams
Not History at All . . .
Uncle Clarence
Dinner at Noon
Russell Harty, 1934-1988
Innes Lloyd, 1925-1991
Peter Cook, 1937-1995
The Lady in the Van
Postscript
Diaries 1980-1995
Prefaces to Plays
Forty Years On and Other Plays
An Englishman Abroad
The Wind in the Willows
The King and I
The Madness of King George
Filming and Rehearsing
Forty Years On
A Day Out
The Writer in Disguise
The Insurance Man
Books and Writers
Gielgud's Achievements
Cold Sweat
Bad John
Instead of a Present
The Wrong Blond
Kafka at Las Vegas
Comfortable Words
Alas! Deceived
A. E. Housman, 1859-1936
Stocking Fillers
Tit for Tatti
The Pith and its Pitfalls
Say Cheese, Virginia!
Christmas in NW1
Going Around
Acknowledgements
Index

Rezensionen

Simply the funniest and most poignant thing I've read all year... only fools and madmen will pass up the chance to read it. Writing Home is a must.' Tatler