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Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9780571248124
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Faber and Faber
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Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is the core of his collection Untold Stories. It is a poignant memoir of his parents' marriage and his own childhood, recalling Christmases with Grandma Peel and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen and Myra. With the sudden descent of his mother into depression and, later, dementia, a long-held family secret is uncovered in this moving and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of our best-loved English writers.
Alan Bennett's "A Life Like Other People's" is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's descent into depression and later dementia comes hand in hand with the uncovering of a long-held tragic secret. A heartrending and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of the best-loved English writers alive today.
| ISBN | 0571248128 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780571248124
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 315 | | Publisher | Faber and Faber | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Faber and Faber | | Height (mm) | 175 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 135 | | Publication date | 03 Sep 2009 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 822.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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