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Synopsis
The drama critic Kenneth Tynan led opinion, roused tempers and sparked the theatrical explosion of the 1960s. This selection of his letters - witty, scandalous, intellectual, passionate - plunges the reader into the heady cultural life of his time. The selection traces the making of a scandalous intellectual persona, and a lifetime battle against the forces of convention and complacency. Never before published, the letters reveal a great range of subject and correspondent. Tynan wrote to John Lennon on sex; to the Lord Chamberlain on censorship; to his schoolfriend Julian Holland on American comics, cricket and prose style; to Marlene Dietrich on candour and autobiography; and to his many girlfriends on love.
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Review
"I know of no Letters which capture so movingly the arc of a man's life... These letters, scupulously edited and exhaustively annotated by Kathleen Tynan, are not just of surpassing interest to theatre- buffs. They are for anyone who relishes the vitality of voluptuous prose, who is fascinated by the libertarian battles of freedom of expression conducted in the sixties, and who is quite simply curious about the passions and travails of a unique, radical sophisticate." (Guardian)
"Compulsively readable" (The Times)
"The wittiest critic and one of the most sparkling writers of his generation" (Independent on Sunday)
"Tynan emerges not only as unique, original and courageous, but also at times as silly, vain, and the champion intellectual and showbiz groupie of all time" (Daily Telegraph)
About the Author
Kathleen Tynan, novelist, journalist and screenwriter, was the author of The Summer Aeroplane and Agatha. Her biography of her husband, The Life of Kenneth Tynan, was published to great acclaim in 1987. Kathleen Tynan died in 1995.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0297810766
- ISBN 13 9780297810766
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages500
- EditorTynan Kathleen
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