OL2803387W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 84.85 Pages 134 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0753185989 It is a fantasy on the same level of wish-fulfilment but with, I suspect, even less basis in reality than Hugh Grant's speech standing up to the Americans in Love, Actually. Truly touching, was the manner in which Alan Bennett captured the true souls of readers - those who find themselves transported by the words of others and allowing themselves and their ideals, to be questioned and reshaped. Her job was to take an interest, not to be interested herself. The author of the Tony Award winner The History Boys, Alan Bennett is one of Britain’s best-loved literary voices.With The Uncommon Reader, he brings us a playful homage to the written word, imagining a world in which literature becomes a subversive bridge between powerbrokers and commoners. That may sound a bit odd I mean, arent all books for readers Sure, but this. Hobbies involved preferences and preferences had to be avoided preferences excluded people. Jogging, growing roses, chess or rock climbing, cake decoration, model aeroplanes. An Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius User Review - Publishers Weekly Smith, a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, offers a superb biography. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:40:45 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA141710 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Picador ed. It was a hobby and it was in the nature of her job that she didn’t have hobbies.

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