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Kenneth Tynan: Writing for Posterity: A Life (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press (6 Jun 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0300099193
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300099195
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 884,770 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The first in-depth biography of theater genius Kenneth Tynan, looking behind the celebrity myth to show how Tynan's eloquence and fervor helped change the course of theater in Britain and America

Keith Baxter, Spectator, 12 July 2003
'[an] excellent biography, so cool, so impeccably researched, and so often very moving'.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing!, 13 Jan 2005
By G. Pickersgill "Greg Pickersgill" (Haverfordwest) - See all my reviews
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I am rather a fan of Kenneth Tynan's life, personality, and writing - I have all his published work and all other books by and about him - but I was definately disappointed with this biography.

The problem is that it is more a portrait of the English theatre postWW2 as seen by KT than it is a biography of KT the Person, which is what I am interested in! Remarkably little - none perhaps - more than we already may know from the Kathleen Tynan bio, or the Diaries or Letters is revealed, either as information or commentary; he even dies almost offstage, in one sentence on p349!

A good book perhaps for someone with an interest in the English stage and Tynan - in that order - but not a wholly recommended must-read for anyone interested in Tynan the Person. For that I'd recommend Kathleen Tynan's book more, for all its faults, or the Diaries.

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