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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... mother weeping as if he were returning to the front , and there at Wilsill we stayed - but for how long ? My brother , then aged eight , says it was three weeks ; to me , three years younger , it seemed months ; but , weeks or months ...
... mothers , who were invariably referred to as Mummy and Daddy . In an effort to bring this fabulous world closer to my own , more threadbare , existence , I tried as a first step substituting ' Mummy ' and ' Daddy ' for my usual ' Mam ...
... mother favoured - local celebrities ( as much later was John Braine ) , writers who had escaped the mill or the mine and made good , the making good invariably taking the form of going Down South . These books , and those my brother and ...
... mother's hands would be covered in terrible eczema , the joints cracked open , the skin scaling away . ' My hands have broken out again , ' she would say , and put it down to the wrong soap . But it was as if she was now caged in and ...
... mother was more broadminded and might have found Portnoy's Complaint quite funny , but Dad's literary renaissance never infected her , and for years her reading was largely confined to Woman's Own and in particular to the column written ...
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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 |