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- Product code: 250678
- ISBN: 1846680492,
ISBN13: 9781846680496,
160 pages, Paperback
Published by Profile Books on 2007
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Description of The Uncommon Reader |
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world, and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.
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Reviews "Alan Bennett, with his combination of pitiless observation and gentle understatement, is perhaps the best-loved of English writers alive today."
- Sunday Telegraph
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About Alan Bennett |
Alan Bennett is one of the most celebrated writers in Britain today. His play (and film) The History Boys won seven Emmys in New York and was the most successful play in the history of the National Theatre. He was named 'Author of the Year' at the 2006 British Book Awards.
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