Towards the End of the Morning - Softcover

Frayn, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571204244 ISBN 13: 9780571204243

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2000

Synopsis

Michael Frayn's classic is set in the crossword and nature-notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives.

About this title

Book Description:

Towards the End of Morning by Michael Frayn is a brilliantly comic drama about an ambitious journalist who works for an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street.

About the Author:

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Spies (2002), won the Whitbread Novel Award and Skios (2012) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently Afterlife. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0571204244
• ISBN 13: 9780571204243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240