Two Besides by Alan Bennett
In the near future, former Mormon missionary and ex-con Peter Novak is approached out of the blue by his uncle Jethro Black, who comes bearing news: the Apocalypse is here. And when a demon takes away everything Peter holds dear, he joins his uncle and his underground militia to hunt down the monster that ruined his life. But as the search continues, one mystery after another comes to light, and soon Peter finds himself caught in the middle of a war that has been raging since before the world was. Hell is on the rise, nowhere is safe, and the Devil has begun to bring to fruition an ancient plot to siege the earth, bring down heaven and dethrone God himself.Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van (together with the screenplay), A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London, The History Boys (also a screenplay) won numerous awards including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. On Broadway,The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys. The Habit of Art opened at the National in 2009; in 2012, People, as well as the two short plays Hymn and Cocktail Sticks, was also staged there.
His latest collection of prose, Keeping On Keeping On, was published in 2016. Of his two previous collections, Writing Home was a number one bestseller and Untold Stories won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography, 2006. Bennett's Six Poets, Hardy to Larkin, An Anthology, was published in 2014. His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571365852 |
| ISBN 10 | 057136585X |
| Title | Two Besides |
| Author | Alan Bennett |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2020-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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