Titre : | The clothes they stood up in and the lady in the van |
Auteurs : | Alan Bennett, Auteur |
Type de document : | Livre imprimé |
Editeur : | New-York : Random house trade paperback edition, 2002 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8129-6965-8 |
Format : | 1 vol.(223p.) / couv. ill. en coul. / 20 cm |
Note générale : | Ouvrage en langue étrangère |
Langues: | Anglais |
Langues originales: | Anglais |
Catégories : |
[Blanc Montmayeur] > LITTERATURE AFRICAINE [Blanc Montmayeur] ANGLAIS (LANGUE) |
Résumé : |
In the nationally bestselling novel The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to find their Regents Park flat stripped bare--right down to the toilet-paper roll. Free of all their earthly belongings, the couple faces a perplexing question: Who are they without the things theyve spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly a world of unlimited, frightening possibility opens up before them.
In The Lady in the Van, which The Village Voice called one of the finest bursts of comic writing the twentieth century has produced, Bennett recounts the strange life of Miss Shepherd, a London eccentric who parked her van (overstuffed with decades worth of old clothes, oozing batteries, and kitchen utensils still in their original packaging) in the authors driveway for more than fifteen years. A mesmerizing portrait of an outsider with an acquisitive taste and an indomitable spirit, this biographical essay is drawn with equal parts fascination and compassion. |
Genre : | Nouvelles |
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Imprimé | Tulle-Médiathèque Eric Rohmer | Salle étude | R BEN | Disponible |