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House Arrest
Alan Bennett
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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 Barber
4 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.
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He still has the sharpest pen in Britain ... Bennett is at his best when flirting with indecency ... mesmerising and unbearably sad
Mournful and witty ... Bennett at his best
He may clearly be increasingly frail but, even in lockdown, Alan Bennett retains his customary waspish wit in the latest tranche of his diaries
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
His writing remains as deft and seamless as ever
His stories improve with each telling ... Perhaps it is Bennett'
Sparklingly sardonic ... There really is no one like Bennett, as this small gem demonstrates
Vivid and evocative in the way we'
Our greatest living writer
Cleverer and funnier than any one person has a right to be
The dyspeptic Pepys from Yorkshire, Alan Bennett, master of the "absurd and inexplicable"
I <i>worship</i> Alan Bennett
Filled with elegiac memories and literary gossip ... a major National Treasure
There is no other writer, certainly none from any other era or nation, quite like Alan Bennett
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lockdown, Alan bennett, covid, humour, talking heads, the lady in the van, writer diaries, funny non-fiction, pandemic, coronavirus, the uncommon reader, the history boys, essays