Mortimer 3 plays A Voyage Round My Father: The Dock Brief : What Shall We Tell Caroline - Softcover

Mortimer, John

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9780140092004: Mortimer 3 plays A Voyage Round My Father: The Dock Brief : What Shall We Tell Caroline

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ISBN 10: 0140092005 ISBN 13: 9780140092004

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

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Human relationship, in all their complexities, are John Mortimer's primary concern. This book contains three plays which focus on relationships - "Voyage Round My Father", "The Dock Brief" and "What Shall We Tell Caroline?".

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This is a memory play, suffused by nostalgia, and also a clever evocation of another era... [but] more seethes beneath the surface than is initially apparent. Though unashamedly old-fashioned and sometimes sentimental, the play is emotionally delicate too, and often astute about dependency, the way our parents shape us and how hard it is to say 'I love you'. --Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

About the Author:

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited." He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

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