 | - Book Title: Writing Home. includes The Lady in the Van
- Author: Alan Bennett
- ISBN: 0571173888
- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Year Published: 1994
- Our Normal Price: £82.50 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- 10% Discounted Price: £74.25 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- Description: Faber and Faber, 1994: first edition, black cloth hardcover with white lettering to spine: black and white dust jacket as shown: approximately 6.25 x 9.5" tall: signed by author with best wishes to
on title page: 427 pages, including index: 51 black and white illustrations with drawing to page 60 by David Gentleman showing the removal of Miss Shepherd's Van. Synopsis: Alan Bennett's story: 'The Lady in the Van', a true account of Miss Mary Shepherd's fifteen year stay in his garden in Camden Town, together with extracts from the author's diary featuring the production of his first play, 'Forty Years On,' assorted memories and entertaining accounts of the filming of his television plays, including 'An Englishman Abroad' and 'A Private Function.' Contents as follows: Past and Present (The Treachery of Books. Leeds Trams. Not History at All
. Uncle Clarence. Dinner at Noon. Russel Harty, 1934 1988. Innes Lloyd 1925 1991). The Lady in the Van. Postscript. Diaries 1980 1990. Prefaces to Plays (Forty Years On and Other Plays. An Englishman Abroad. The Wind in the Willows. The King and I.) Filming and Rehearsing ( Forty Years On. A Day out. The Writer in Disguise. The Insurance Man.). Books and Writers (Gielgud's Achievements. Cold Sweat. Bad John. Instead of a Present. The Wrong Blonde. Kafka at Las Vegas. Comfortable Words. Alas! Deceived.) Stocking fillers (Tit for Tatty. The Pith and Its Pitfalls. Say Cheese, Virginia! Christmas at NW1. Going Round.) Acknowledgements. Index. Condition: very slight rubbing to dust jacket edges: ownership inscription dated 1994: price corner intact: overall, very clean, firm and good
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: Yes
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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