Rolling Home

by Alan Bennett

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Paperback

First published September 18, 2003

About the author

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Alan Bennett is an English author and Tony Award-winning playwright. Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On, was produced in 1968. Many television, stage and radio plays followed, along with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose and broadcasting, and many appearances as an actor. Bennett's lugubrious yet expressive voice (which still bears a slight Leeds accent) and the sharp humour and evident humanity of his writing have made his readings of his own work (especially his autobiographical writing) very popular. His readings of the Winnie the Pooh stories are also widely enjoyed.

Reviews

[Jeff Howells · Rating 3 out of 5]

A companion volume to 'Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf' which I read earlier in the year. This is a collection of Alan Bennett's TV scripts from the late 70s & early 80s. I have to say I enjoyed these a lot more than the earlier collection. It's clear that even nearly 40 years ago Bennett writes better for older (i.e. Pensionable) character than he does for younger ones. That being said the best piece here is the story of a family visiting a guest house in Morecambe for their summer holidays. There are also a couple of good ones set in hospitals dealing (inevitably) with death.