Writing Home

Name: Writing Home
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ISBN: 9780571196678

ISBN-10: 0571196675

ISBN-13: 9780571196678

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Authors: Alan Bennett

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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…

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List price: $20.65
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages: 482
Size: 4.30" wide x 6.69" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.078



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