Four Stories

Name: Four Stories
Brand: Profile Books Ltd
SKU: 9781861978196
Price: 1800 KES
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ISBN: 9781861978196

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by Alan Bennett

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1861978197

ISBN-13 9781861978196

Edition Main

Publisher Profile Books Ltd

Imprint Profile Books Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 7th, 2006

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 202 grams

Dimensions 19.70 x 12.80 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general Short stories

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Includes such stories as: "Father! Father! Burning Bright"; "The Clothes They Stood Up In"; "The Laying on of Hands"; and "The Lady in the Van".

Like everything Bennett does, these stories are playful, witty and painfully observant of ordinary people''s foibles. They all have brilliant twists, are immensely entertaining and highly moral. And all are modern classics.The Laying on of HandsThe painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up InThe comic tale of an elderly couple''s trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning BrightThe savage satire on the family of a dying man who rules over them from his hospital bed. The Lady in the VanThe true story of the eccentric old woman who is invited to live in a homeowner''s front garden. She stays there, in her van, for fifteen years. The home is Alan Bennett''s. It became a West End hit and a major film, starring Maggie Smith.

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