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Lovers Dancing - Softcover

Dyer, Charles

 
9780906399521: Lovers Dancing

Synopsis

Nineteen years after four dancers drunkenly shared a bed, resulting in one of them getting pregnant, they all meet again for their annual celebration of that night. The meeting quickly turns sour with resentment and accusations between the two couples.

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Review

...about a lot more than doubtful parentage: it's about success and failure in the outer reaches of bad-taste living... -- Sheridan Morley, Punch

Charles Dyer is a master of invective and the sharply chiselled phrase. -- Milton Shulman, Standard

If the tone is hardly new or the theme surprising, Mr Dyer still writes ... with an energy and occasional eloquence... -- Eric Shorter, Daily Telegraph

Mr Dyer ...writes a heightened, baroque language of loneliness, lust and sexual inadequacy ... Lovers Dancing moves and disturbs, strangely. -- Giles Gordon

About the Author

Charles Dyer was born in Shrewsbury and began his career in the theatre at the age of 15, working as a call-boy at the Hulme Hippodrome in Manchester. He started writing while still a young actor and achieved his first major breakthrough in 1956 with Wanted - One Body, a play that is still regularly performed all over the world . His reputation as a dramatist was established in the 1960s with two plays: Rattle of a Simple Man and Staircase, both of which were made into successful films. A new production of Rattle of a Simple Man opened at the Comedy Theatre, London in May 2004.

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