How'S That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady? - Softcover

Gray, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571151396 ISBN 13: 9780571151394

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2001

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Book by Gray Simon

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Reseña del editor:

In An Unnatural Pursuit Simon Gray wrote an hilarious account of what it's like to be tortured, paranoid and a playwright. Here, in How's That For Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?, he takes on the United States - from coast to coast. The result is the funniest book ever written about the American theatre, a blackly comic portrait of the author and the grotesque characters he encounters on his travels.

Biografía del autor:

Simon Gray was born in 1936. He began his writing career with Colmain (1963), the first of five novels, all published by Faber. He is the author of many plays for TV and radio, also films, including the 1987 adaptation of J L Carr’s A Month in the Country, and TV films including Running Late, After Pilkington (winner of the Prix Italia) and Emmy Award-winning Unnatural Pursuits. He wrote more than thirty stage plays amongst them Butley and Otherwise Engaged (which both received Evening Standard Awards for Best Play), Close of Play, The Rear Column, Quartermaine’s Terms, The Common Pursuit, Hidden Laughter, The Late Middle Classes (winner of the Barclay’s Best Play Award), Japes, The Old Masters (his ninth play to be directed by Harold Pinter) and Little Nell, which premiered at the Theatre Royal Bath in 2007, directed by Peter Hall. Little Nell was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006, and Missing Dates in 2008. In 1991 he was made BAFTA Writer of the Year. His acclaimed works of non-fiction are: An Unnatural Pursuit, How’s That for Telling ’Em, Fat Lady?, Fat Chance, Enter a Fox, The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette and Coda. He was appointed CBE in the 2005 New Year’s Honours for his services to Drama and Literature. Simon Gray died in August 2008.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0571151396
• ISBN 13: 9780571151394
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240