House Arrest (eBook)

Pandemic Diaries

Bennett Alan Bennett (Autor)

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2022
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-80081-193-5 (ISBN)

Infos

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022'Sparklingly sardonic ... There really is no one like Bennett' Independent'Filled with elegiac memories and literary gossip ... a major National Treasure' Lynn Barber4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I hope they're not the thin end of a precautionary wedge lest Her Majesty end up swathed in protective get-up such as is worn at the average crime scene. 20 March. With Rupert now working from home my life is much easier, as I get regular cups of tea and a lovely hot lunch. A year in and out of lockdown as experienced by Alan Bennett. The diary takes us from the filming of Talking Heads to thoughts on Boris Johnson, from his father's short-lived craze for family fishing trips, to stair lifts, junk shops of old, having a haircut, and encounters on the local park bench. A lyrical afterword describes the journey home to Yorkshire from King's Cross station via fish and chips on Quebec Street, past childhood landmarks of Leeds, through Coniston Cold, over the infant River Aire, and on.

Rezensionen

The dyspeptic Pepys from Yorkshire, Alan Bennett, master of the "absurd and inexplicable" moments of ordinary life, offers up a curation of his thoughts, diaries and essays of the pandemic years that makes for a digestible stocking filler ... his thoughts and writing are as clear-eyed and vigorous as ever

His writing remains as deft and seamless as ever

From the singular pen of the incomparable Alan Bennett comes a drily witty and endlessly charming diary of life in and out of lockdown, running the gamut from park bench encounters to haircuts to Boris Johnson

Vivid and evocative in the way we've come to expect from him ... the diaries of the inimitable Alan Bennett are always highly anticipated

His stories improve with each telling ... Perhaps it is Bennett's long experience as a dramatist that lends his prose such perfect timing

Filled with elegiac memories and literary gossip ... a major National Treasure

Our greatest living writer

He may clearly be increasingly frail but, even in lockdown, Alan Bennett retains his customary waspish wit in the latest tranche of his diaries

Sparklingly sardonic ... There really is no one like Bennett, as this small gem demonstrates

Mournful and witty ... Bennett at his best

Cleverer and funnier than any one person has a right to be

He still has the sharpest pen in Britain ... Bennett is at his best when flirting with indecency ... mesmerising and unbearably sad

There is no other writer, certainly none from any other era or nation, quite like Alan Bennett

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2022
• Zusatzinfo: N/A
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Alan Bennett • Coronavirus • Covid • Essays • funny non-fiction • Humour • lockdown • Pandemic • Talking Heads • the history boys • The Lady in the Van • the uncommon reader • writer diaries
• ISBN-10: 1-80081-193-4 / 1800811934
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80081-193-5 / 9781800811935