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Kenneth Tynan: Letters
Kenneth Tynan
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Description for Kenneth Tynan: Letters
Hardcover. 669pp. Index
The drama critic Kenneth Tynan led opinion, roused tempers and sparked the theatrical explosion of the 1960s. This selection of his letters - witty, scandalous, intellectual, passionate - plunges the reader into the heady cultural life of his time. The selection traces the making of a scandalous intellectual persona, and a lifetime battle against the forces of convention and complacency. Never before published, the letters reveal a great range of subject and correspondent. Tynan wrote to John Lennon on sex; to the Lord Chamberlain on censorship; to his schoolfriend Julian Holland on American comics, cricket and prose style; to Marlene ... Read more
The drama critic Kenneth Tynan led opinion, roused tempers and sparked the theatrical explosion of the 1960s. This selection of his letters - witty, scandalous, intellectual, passionate - plunges the reader into the heady cultural life of his time. The selection traces the making of a scandalous intellectual persona, and a lifetime battle against the forces of convention and complacency. Never before published, the letters reveal a great range of subject and correspondent. Tynan wrote to John Lennon on sex; to the Lord Chamberlain on censorship; to his schoolfriend Julian Holland on American comics, cricket and prose style; to Marlene ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780297810766
SKU
KHS1014336
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Ref
99-1
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