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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 1 July 2004
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780413730602
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages672 pages
- Size 198x129 mm
- Weight 662 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this major study, Ira Nadel shows how Tom Stoppard's life imitates his art and vice versa. An authorised biography, it draws on inside sources including Stoppard's own notebooks and letters, some previously unpublished.
MoreLong description:
"""The story of Stoppard's life is a compelling one and it is laid out with extraordinary detail in this first major biography"" - Evening Standard
Double Act is the first major biography of one of the world's celebrated most writers, From his early theatrical success as the youngest playwright ever produced at the National Theatre, to his Academy Award for Shakespeare in Love, Tom Stoppard's work is renowned for its dazzling wit, invention and box-office appeal. But his real life is a more complicated affair still; and this acclaimed and authoritative book reveals the remarkable private story of a man who from childhood had to invent his own personality, and whose multi-layered dramas reflect the enduring contradictions of his life.
""An impressive biography ... it makes a good story out of that most unpromising subject, an unqualified and extended triumph."" Spectator
""Appealingly embellished with Stoppard's shrewd witticisms about his work and full of keen perceptions of its own, Double Act offers an exhaustive and enlightening overview of a singular talent that is happiest when expressing itself in dual ways."" Sunday Times
""Nadel is excellent at providing an exposition of Stoppard's ideas and the wider social context in which he lives."" Independent on Sunday
""A searching biography of this mercurial writer ... Nadel builds an engrossing picture of someone in continual self-reinvention."" Jewish Chronicle
""Stoppard's playwriting career, unsurprisingly, constitutes the largest component of the biography, and the production details, gossip and contractual facts make for fascinating reading."" Irish Times
""If the genius of Nadel's subject lies in paradox, it also needs genius to turn that paradox into an event. This book is one, and a palpable hit."" Good Book Guide
""Essential reading for all students of theatre."" Hampstead & Highgate"
