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Quartermaine´s Terms
Gray S
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Description for Quartermaine´s Terms
Paperback. A light comedy about a group of educated, often eccentric English characters in an academic backwater in the early sixties. But though the jokes are excellent, the piece cuts deep. It creates a poignant sense of transience and mortality. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124.
'A masterly portrayal of an innocent.'
Harold Pinter, from 'Directing Simon Gray's Plays', Simon Gray Plays 1
'Superficially, it is a light comedy about a group of educated, often eccentric English characters in an academic backwater in the early sixties. But though the jokes are excellent, the piece cuts deep. There are Strindberg-like glimpses of wretchedly unhappy marriages and, as in Ibsen, a sense of chickens coming home to roost. But the primary impression here is of an English Chekhov. As in the plays of the Russian master, the characters talk a lot, but they rarely listen, still ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571303014
SKU
V9780571303014
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99-10
About Gray S
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 ... Read more
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