Writing Home - Softcover

Bennett, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312422571 ISBN 13: 9780312422578

Publisher: Picador, 2003

Synopsis

Writing Home Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, "Writing Home" includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van," his unforgettable account of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who lived in a van in Bennett's garden for more than twenty years. This revised and... Full description

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Review:

"[A] wonderful book, the wit of which spills over even into the index....There's so much here...[Bennett] is angry, hilariously self-pitying and he writes beautifully." --The Times (London)

"Delightful." --Time

"A classic performance." --Times Literary Supplement

"Brilliantly perceptive...If anyone wants to define the distinctive Englishness of English writing, they can find it all in this book--modesty, irony, self-deprecating wit, and supremely good observation." --Daily Telegraph

"The book [contains] perhaps the funniest piece ever written about the theater...marvelous, marvelous, marvelous." --The Independent

"Irresistibly well written, wry, witty, every sentence a pleasure...Humane, observant, and sharply intelligent." --Sunday Time

Book Description:

Writing Home by Alan Bennett is a wonderfully entertaining collection of his writings, and the companion volume to Untold Stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312422571
• ISBN 13: 9780312422578
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688