A Life Like Other People's
by:
Alan Bennett (author)
Alan Bennett's "A Life Like Other People's" is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his...
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Alan Bennett's "A Life Like Other People's" is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's descent into depression and later dementia comes hand in hand with the uncovering of a long-held tragic secret. A heartrending and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of the best-loved English writers alive today.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780571248124 (571248128)
ASIN: 571248128
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Alan Bennett writes about graveyards, the chapel in a crematorium, some wildlife, Leeds, a canal, hospitals, mental illness, its treatment and common attitudes to it, several aunties (not aunts), their unsatisfactory husbands, his grandfather a little, his father quite a lot and his mother mainly, t...
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