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Untold Stories
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Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home , in a beautiful hardback edition.

Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work with figures such as Maggie Smith, Thora Hird and John Gielgud.

Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s Alan Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with his gentle humour and wry observations about life. His many works include Forty Years On , The Lady in the Van , Talking Heads , A Question of Attribution and The Madness of King George . The History Boys opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004, and is winner of the Evening Standard Award, the South Bank Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play.

Untold Stories is published jointly with Profile Books.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-571-22830-0
Product TypeBook
BindingHardcover
PublisherFaber & Faber
Publishing date01/07/2005
Pages672 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 161 mm, Height 241 mm, Thickness 55 mm
Weight1155 g
Article no.2806609
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.19820556
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

Alan Bennett, 1934 in Leeds geboren, hat in Oxford studiert und kurzzeitig auch unterrichtet. Anfang der 1960er Jahre trat er beim Edinburgh Festival auf; seitdem arbeitet er als Autor, Schauspieler und Regisseur für Theater, Radio, Film und Fernsehen.
In Großbritannien gilt er als einer der führenden Bühnen- und Drehbuchautoren, die von ihm geschriebenen TV-Serien, in einigen wirkte er auch selbst mit, mit ihren spitzzüngigen Dialogen haben längst Kult-Status erreicht. Er erhielt zahlreiche Preise und Ehrungen, u.a. für das Theaterstück und den darauf basierenden Film "The Madness of King George" (deutscher Titel: King George: Ein Königreich für mehr Verstand), für dessen Drehbuch er 1995 für den Oscar nominiert war. Bennetts wenige Erzählungen und seine Erinnerungen waren Bestseller