Writing Home by Alan Bennett
Writing Home is the first of four wonderfully entertaining collections of Alan Bennett's prose. Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995 and the journal Alan Bennett kept during the production of Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, the book also includes accounts of his many television play, introduction to his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Madness of King George and, at its heart,The Lady in the Van, the true account of Miss Mary Shepherd, a homeless tramp who took up residence in Bennett's garden and stayed for fifteen years. From his now-legendary address at Russell Harty's memorial service to recollections of growing up in Leeds,Writing Home gives us an unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights. Writing Home is the first of four collections, and is followed by True Stories, Keeping On Keeping and, most recently, the number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, Enough Said.
Alan Bennett's works for stage and screen include Talking Heads, Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III, an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, People, Hymn, Cocktail Sticks, Two Besides and Allelujah! Prose collections are Writing Home, Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006), Keeping On Keeping On and Enough Said. Works of fiction include, The Uncommon Reader, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories and Killing Time.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571315727 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571315720 |
| Title | Writing Home |
| Author | Alan Bennett |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2014-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 656 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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