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Simon Gray: Plays 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept
Gray S
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Description for Simon Gray: Plays 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept
Paperback. A play that combines intelligence and wit with a generosity of spirit. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 38. Weight in Grams: 436.
'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.'
Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit
'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic English dramatists of the second half of the twentieth century would appear now to be undisputed.' Howard Jacobson, Critical Quarterly
Hidden Laughter
'A sad divine comedy, superbly written. Gray nurses his characters and cares for them, but he never pampers them, or pities them, or presumes to use them as his spokesman. In this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571254897
SKU
V9780571254897
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Ref
99-31
About Gray S
Simon Gray was born in 1936. He began his writing career with Colmain (1963), the first of five novels, all published by Faber. He is the author of many plays for TV and radio, also films, including the 1987 adaptation of J L Carr's A Month in the Country, and TV films including Running Late, After Pilkington (winner of the ... Read more
Reviews for Simon Gray: Plays 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept