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Enough Said: The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller de Alan Bennett

Enough Said: The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Autor Alan Bennett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 noi 2027
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA TIMES BOOK OF THE SUMMER'Alan Bennett is our greatest living writer' Daily Mail'A legend of British letters' Financial Times'In an age of curated self-belief, his vulnerabilities feel refreshing, his reticence almost radical' The Times20 September. Have a notion for a radio series - Awkward Conversations.Enough Said is Alan Bennett's fourth collection of diaries and prose. Covering the turbulent years 2016 to 2024, the diaries take us through lockdown, Brexit, the reign of Johnson, the rise of Trump and the death of the Queen. In between, we take the train with him back and forth to Yorkshire, celebrate the herons, the newts and the street fairs, and lament the scarcity of curlews, the closure of the last local bank and the deteriorating welfare state. There is the premiere of Allelujah!, the revived Talking Heads, the publication of two Sunday Times bestsellers and the filming of The Choral. 2024 is the year that Alan turns ninety; he reflects on old age and the importance of luck. He looks back to childhood and recalls an idyllic wartime month as an evacuee. A book for the bedside, this is poignant, funny, contemplative Alan Bennett, as he records life both personal and political in his most distinct of voices.
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ISBN-13: 9781805229001
ISBN-10: 1805229001
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of King George Ill (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George) and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won Evening Standard, Critics' Circle and Olivier awards, as well as the South Bank Award. On Broadway, The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award for Best Play, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys including Best Play. The film of The History Boys was released in 2006. Alan Bennett's collection of prose, Untold Stories, won the PEN/Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, 2006. His 2009 play, The Habit of Art, received glowing reviews and was broadcast live the following year by National Theatre Live. In 2012 People premiered at the National Theatre to widespread critical acclaim. The film of The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith was released in 2015, sending Bennett's memoir of the same name to the top of the bestseller list for nine weeks.

Recenzii

A legend of British letters
Alan Bennett is our greatest living writer
In an age of curated self-belief, his vulnerabilities feel refreshing, his reticence almost radical... we are left with the bracing consolation of a mind that has never stopped doubting, never stopped observing, never stopped quietly, stubbornly climbing the stairs
Alan Bennett has definitively arrived at the status of public institution... against the societal upheaval of this period, Bennett provides a welcome unsentimental deflation of political grandiosity... The eclecticism of this collection ultimately charms
Nostalgia, shame and gossip from Alan Bennett ... A man for all seasons
Surprisingly raucous... Alan Bennett is our greatest living writer
These warm recollections are welcome and very charming... What remains a pleasure is Bennett's relish of the spoken language, both recalled and current
Entertaining [and] immaculately produced... Nicely paced, artfully varied, seldom repetitious
Homely and scabrous, cosy and sardonic, waspish and humorous ... Don't believe the title: Enough Said will surely not be the last we hear from Alan Bennett
Terrific. He's always been witty. Occasionally he's wise. It's a winning compound
It's time to address the paranormal forcefield around Bennett, which means we always see him as Wry National Treasure Alan Bennett, Britain's cultural equivalent of a much loved elderly spaniel. In reality , however, Bennett is not fluffy and has spent decades telling us this
Its eclectic entries reveal a mind that remains inquiring deep into the brambles of old age. Whether writing about hymns or the comedy of Stewart Lee, the judgments are dependably sharp
So accustomed are we now to Bennett's prose that it takes a mental leap to notice just how good he is, how finely tuned his sentences, the microscopic power of his observation
Characteristically wry and gently incisive
Compelling [and] affecting... The Bennett of these pages is in constant and lively dialogue with himself
Bennett is an observant diarist, and he possesses the true diarist's knack of being compulsively readable when writing of the quotidian... A richly inventive writer
Mellow [and] beautiful... Enough Said is a testament to a life richly and widely lived
Hopefully Enough Said isn't the full stop its title implies - but if it is, it's a wonderful way to bow out
I was stupidly thrilled to find I'm mentioned in it