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One Million Tiny Plays About Britain

Autor Craig Taylor
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 ian 2013
A Wonder Woman and bride-to-be finds herself worse for wear at the end of a hen night; a funeral director's love of Manchester United proves unhelpful when talking to the bereaved; two overly-vigilant mothers wrestle with their paranoia in the queue for Santa's Grotto; a widow recounts her disastrous return to the world of dating and a father realises that his son is growing away from him as he helps him tie his football boots.In these snippets of overheard conversations from across the length and breadth of the country, Craig Taylor captures the state we're in with humour and pathos and perfect timing. Laugh-out-loud funny, and sometimes heartbreakingly moving, these tiny plays in which every one of us could have a starring role are little windows into other people's lives that reveal the triumphs, disasters, prejudices, horrors and joys of twenty-first-century life.Hugely entertaining and utterly addictive, this is book that can be dipped into or feasted upon in one sitting. It will change the way you listen to the world around you, and train journeys will never be the same again.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408838259
ISBN-10: 1408838257
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Craig Taylor's plays ran in the SaturdayGuardianfor over a year and he has a devoted fanbase. The book contains over fifty previously unpublished plays

Notă biografică

Craig Taylor's non-fiction has appeared in theGuardian, theNew York Timesand theGlobe and Mail. His fiction has appeared in theMississippi Review. He wroteOne Million Tiny Plays About Britainfor theGuardian's Weekend magazine for several years.Craig publishes Hamish Hamilton'sFive Dialsmagazine as well as his own photocopied magazines, includingThe Review of Everything I've Ever EncounteredandDark Tales of Clapham. His first book,Return To Akenfield, was published by Granta in 2006, and the play of the novel toured the UK in 2009.

Recenzii

'Like the best playwrights, [Taylor's] characters have independent and spontaneous lives of their own contained within a carefully constructed dramatic architecture. Within his little worlds we see glimpses of the oddness, the quiet desperation, and the occasional tenderness of the lives of others. The plays are an original form: dramatic haikus'
'Taylor's plays are acutely observed, exquisitely crafted tragicomedies, rooted in bitter or absurd truths. Through their tiny aperture they provide a detailed picture that sparks an all-important jolt of recognition which is, by turns, comical, satisfying and highly discomforting. They take all of one minute to read, but will make you think for a great deal longer'
'One Million Tiny Plays About Britainreads like a digest of the nation's soaps, with a little bit of Alan Bennett andThe Vicar of Dibleythrown in'