Résumé
'Oh Norman,' said the Queen, 'the prime minister doesn't seem to have read any Hardy. Perhaps you could find him one of our old paperbacks on his way out.' Had the dogs not taken exception to the strange van parked in the royal grounds, the Queen might never have learnt of the Westminster travelling library's weekly visits to the palace. But finding herself at its steps, she goes up to apologise for all the yapping and ends up taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett, last borrowed in 1989. Duff read though it proves to be, upbringing demands she finish it and, so as not to appear rude, she withdraws another. This second, more fortunate choice of book awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer. And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Samuel Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close. Subversive and highly enjoyable, The Uncommon Reader offers the perfect argument for reading, written by one of its great champions, Alan Bennett.
À propos de l'auteur
Bennett, Alan
Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success ofBeyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television seriesTalking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, includingForty Years On,The Lady in the Van,A Question of Attribution,The Madness of King George Ill (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplayThe Madness of King George) and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame'sThe 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 ofThe 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 2012People premiered at the National Theatre to widespread critical acclaim. The film ofThe 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.
Fiche technique
- Titre : The Uncommon Reader.
- Auteur : Bennett, Alan
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 128
- Genre : Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Date de publication : 03-07-2008
- Édition : Profile Books Ltd
- Poids : 0.04499999069026956 kg
- Dimensions : 11.099977800000001 x 0.8999982 x 17.7999644 cm
- ISBN-10 : 1846681332
- ISBN-13 : 9781846681332
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