Tom Stoppard A Life

A unique portrait of a great playwright by one of our leading 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 meticulously 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.

ISBN:	9780571314430
Publisher:	Faber & Faber
Imprint:	Faber & Faber
Published date:	01 Oct 2020
DEWEY:	822.914
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	8940
Number of pages:	464
Weight:	980g
Height:	166mm
Width:	242mm
Spine width:	48mm

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