THE SINGING DETECTIVE

Potter, Dennis

ISBN 10: 0571145906 / ISBN 13: 9780571145904

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1986

About this Item

Faint crease to spine, yellowed paper; 1987 reprint features Michael Gambon on front and back cover. Unabridged original text of the six part BBC television series. 350gms weight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages. Seller Inventory # 18152

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE SINGING DETECTIVE

Publisher: Faber & Faber, London

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with the plot of his atmospheric thriller to the point where fantasy and reality seem to exchange places. The result is the most painful and disturbing screen drama of the 1980s.

About the Author:

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.