Tom Stoppard

A Life

Format: Hardback
£30.00

A unique portrait of a great playwright by one of our leadin literary biographers. With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and countless interviews with figures ranging from Felicity Kendal to John Boorman and Trevor Nunn to Steven Spielberg, Hermione Lee builds a metiucously researched portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Drawing on several years of long, exploratory conversations with Stoppard himself, it tracks his Czech origins and childhood in India to every school and home he's ever lived in, every piece of writing he's ever done, and every play and film he's ever worked on; but in the end this is the story of a complex, elusive and private man, which tells you an enormous amount about him but leaves you, also, with the fascinating mystery of his ultimate unknowability.
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Authors:
Lee, Professor Dame Hermione
Year Published:
2020
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780571314430
Number of Pages:
992
Publication Date:
01/10/2020
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Place of Publication:
London
SKU:
9780571314430

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