The Uncommon Reader: Alan Bennett's classic story about the Queen - Softcover

Bennett, Alan

 
9781846681332: The Uncommon Reader: Alan Bennett's classic story about the Queen
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ISBN 10: 1846681332 ISBN 13: 9781846681332
Verlag: Profile Books, 2008

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What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story.

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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, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of King George Ill (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George) and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won Evening Standard, Critics' Circle and Olivier awards, as well as 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 for Best Play, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys including Best Play. The film of The History Boys was released in 2006. Alan Bennett's collection of prose, Untold Stories, won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, 2006. His 2009 play, The Habit of Art, received glowing reviews and was broadcast live the following year by National Theatre Live. In 2012 People premiered at the National Theatre to widespread critical acclaim. The film of The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith was released in 2015, sending Bennett's memoir of the same name to the top of the bestseller list for nine weeks.

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[insert Royal Court logo] A masterpiece of comic brevity. Observer Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster travelling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Duff read though it proves to be, the following week she withdraws a second, more enjoyable choice of book. This awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer. And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close. A gloriously entertaining comic narrative, but it is also much more: a deadly serious manifesto for the potential of reading to change lives. Edward Marriot, Observer As good as anything he has ever done. David Sexton, Evening Standard Turn off the phone, lock the door, and devour it. Country Life His portrait of the Queen s sentimental education through literature is gently subversive, wholly convincing, and very, very funny. London Review of Books A beguiling bedtime story for grown-ups. Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph There is one little gem that stands out [it] must take pride of place for its sheer originality. It is a slender volume, but full of drama. I loved it. John Major, Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year

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Verlag
Profile Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1846681332
ISBN 13 
9781846681332
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128
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