The Laying On of Hands: Stories
by:
Alan Bennett (author)
Alan Bennett’s extraordinary ear for dialogue and sharpness of perception have made him a master storyteller. In “Father! Father! Burning Bright” he writes with tragicomic insight about a son’s vigil at his father’s deathbed where their lifelong battle continues to the end. “The Laying on of...
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Alan Bennett’s extraordinary ear for dialogue and sharpness of perception have made him a master storyteller. In “Father! Father! Burning Bright” he writes with tragicomic insight about a son’s vigil at his father’s deathbed where their lifelong battle continues to the end. “The Laying on of Hands,” a brilliantly funny satire, describes a society memorial service for a rather special masseur who died tragically young; and in “Miss Fozzard Finds her Feet,” a lonely, unmarried department store clerk discovers there’s more to life than looking after her brother through her only indulgence, her podiatrist.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312422257 (0312422253)
Publish date: May 2nd 2003
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
A very short story that was originally published in the London Review of Books, and is typically Bennett.It is set in the moments before, after, and mainly during, the memorial service for Clive, a young man who died in Peru a few months earlier. The fashionable London church is filled with a group ...
Clive muore in Perù. A Londra la commemorazione. Sono molti a partecipare. Lo conoscevano molto bene, e così lo conosceva anche padre Jolliffe. Sì, allo stesso modo.Clive già da piccolo aveva le mani che emanavano un prodigioso calore. Se ne vergognava. Poi, scoprì che il suo non era un difetto, ma ...
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