Writing HomePicador, 2007 M04 1 - 688 páginas Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van," his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who lived in a van in Bennett's garden for more than twenty years. This revised and updated edition includes new material from the author, including more recent diaries and his introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George. A chronicle of one of the most important literary careers of the twentieth century, Writing Home is a classic history of a life in letters. |
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Alan Bennett. bringing out a book , one has to go on a promotional tour . That autumn I was escorted round a good many ... goes in and there is a nylon shirt hanging up to dry , some socks over the radiator , half a pizza three days old ...
... go and watch Dad play in his band somewhere in Wortley , and our carefree family of four has been joined by a fifth , a huge and threatening cuckoo , the double bass . Knowing what is to happen , the family make no attempt to go ...
... goes on manoeuvres at Pirbright . I watch him as he winds off these muddy brown bandages to find his legs ridged like those of the common house fly , pictured one thousand times life - size in the Children's Encyclopedia . I never ...
... goes in there with impunity ; the assistant manager may even bow to him now while throwing somebody else out . Me still , possibly . Dinner at Noon was a documentary about the Crown Hotel , Harrogate , which Jonathan Stedall and I made ...
... goes hoover hoover outside the day's first meeting - this time a meeting about how to hold meetings . ( Melbourne Room . ) LECTURER : The discipline of the meeting is very important , and I'm sure that most of you have had an enormous ...
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Peter Cook 19371995 | 77 |
The Writer in Disguise | 427 |
The Insurance Man | 447 |
Gielguds Achievements | 463 |
Cold Sweat | 475 |
Bad John | 489 |
Instead of a Present | 498 |
The Wrong Blond | 504 |
Kafka at Las Vegas | 516 |
The Lady in the Van | 83 |
Postscript | 121 |
Forty Years On and Other Plays | 313 |
An Englishman Abroad | 329 |
The Wind in the Willows | 337 |
The King and I | 353 |
The Madness of King George | 372 |
Forty Years On | 395 |
A Day Out | 418 |
Comfortable Words | 538 |
Alas Deceived | 548 |
A E Housman 18591936 | 578 |
Tit for Tatti | 587 |
Say Cheese Virginia | 594 |
Going Round | 606 |
Acknowledgements | 613 |
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Differently Literate: Boys, Girls, and the Schooling of Literacy Elaine Millard Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |