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Description for Telling Tales
Paperback. Ex Library. Usual markings.Complete with plastic dustwrapper.
Ten childhood snapshots from the master of the monologue. Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are funny, touching and told in his unique style. Hampered, as he sees it, by a family that never manages to be quite like other families he recounts his early years in Leeds - 'a place where one learned early on, the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere': there is hiking every Sunday, trips into town and teas in cafes. It's an ordinary childhood, Bennett's father a butcher, his mother a reader of women's magazines ... Read more
Ten childhood snapshots from the master of the monologue. Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are funny, touching and told in his unique style. Hampered, as he sees it, by a family that never manages to be quite like other families he recounts his early years in Leeds - 'a place where one learned early on, the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere': there is hiking every Sunday, trips into town and teas in cafes. It's an ordinary childhood, Bennett's father a butcher, his mother a reader of women's magazines ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
BBC Books London
Number of pages
95
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Ex Libris
Yes
Number of Pages
95
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780563534365
SKU
KEX0205108
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
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