The Copenhagen Papers by Michael Frayn

The Copenhagen Papers by Michael Frayn

One day, during the British run of Copenhagen, winner of the Tony Award for best play in 1999, Frayn was presented with a curious package from a London housewife that contained a few faded pages of barely legible German. These pages, apparently found concealed beneath some floorboards, seemed to cast a remarkable new light on the mystery at the heart of the play. While Frayn began to lose all sense of certainty, actor David Burke, who played Niels Bohr in the London production and had some experience with documents of this sort, followed the action with particularly close interest. After the riddle was cracked and the fog had cleared, Frayn and Burke sat down together to ponder the winding trail of the Copenhagen papers.

By turns comic and profound, The Copenhagen Papers explores the conundrum at the heart of all Michael Frayn's work--human fallibility and the eternal difficulty of knowing why we do what we do.

David Burke is the coauthor, with Carmel Berman Reingold, of Cooking with David Burke. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, was trained in France, and was the first American to be awarded the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France Diplome d'Honneur. His other awards include Japan's Nippon Award of Excellence, the Robert Mondavi Award of Excellence, and the Culinary Institute's August Escoffier Award. He is the executive chef and co-owner of davidburke & donatella, and executive chef and sole owner of David Burke at Bloomingdale's, both in New York City. He lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

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ISBN 13	9780312421243
ISBN 10	0312421249
Title	The Copenhagen Papers
Author	Michael Frayn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2003-01-04
Number of pages	144
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