Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I've added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise. They just about end up on top and go on, but without quite knowing how. Still, they're in good company, and at least they've made it into print.'
Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the inevitable consequences when she makes life intolerable for herself and her family by falling for her own flesh and blood; while The Shrine tells the story behind a makeshift roadside shrine, introducing us to Lorna, bearing witness in her high-vis jacket, the bereft partner of a dedicated biker with a surprising private life.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Faber And Faber
ISBN: 9780571365869
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda bolsillo
Fecha de lanzamiento: 07/10/2021
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett es autor de muchas obras teatrales como Habeas Corpus, Forty One Years On, Kafka’s Dick o The Madness of George III (adaptada después al cine), guiones cinematográficos como Prick Up Your Ears (basado en la vida de Joe Orton), y piezas televisivas como Talking Heads y An Englishman Abroad, que lo han convertido en uno de los autores británicos más queridos, o la selección de sus diarios Writing Home. Asimismo es muy apreciado como actor. En 2003 recibió el British Book Award por la obra de una vida y fue calificado como «nuestro Tesoro Nacional», aunque naturalmente Bennett detesta esta frase.