Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
Publishing Details
Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
By (Author) Alexander Games
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
10th July 2002
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
822.914
Physical Properties
320
Width 128mm, Height 195mm, Spine 23mm
250g
Description
Alan Bennett is one of Britain's successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with "Beyond the Fringe" in 1961. Since then he has had success with his plays ("Kafka's Dick", "An Englishman Abroad"), films ("A Private Function", "Prick Up Your Ears", "The Madness of King George"), monologues ("Talking Heads") and diaries ("Writing Home, "The Lady in the Van"). In this book Alex Games examines the life of this private man and sheds new light on his work.
Author Bio
Alex Games was the comedy critic of the Evening Standard until 2001 and reviews comedy for GLR and in the Sunday Times. He is the author of an illustrated biography of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
