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'Life is something that happens elsewhere' reflects Alan Bennett sadly. Situations that might seem fortunate to others are merely negative to him - no bombs falling on Leeds during World War II meant no shrapnel for young Alan to collect. Anyone who listened to Bennett telling his tales of growing up in Leeds during the war, will recognize the self-deprecating attitude and remember the downbeat inflection and the north country accent that seems to colour his thoughts, for these are the same tales brought out in book form. Similarly anyone familiar with Bennett's plays, such as The Lady in the Van, or his television soliloquies Talking Heads knows that he is a brilliant verbal portrait painter, and the kernel of each of these ten chapters in this collection is the loving picture that he paints of his own parents. He tells us the moving story of two infinitely unselfish people and their serious, unworldly schoolboy son who longs to protect them from the hardships of wartime life (he even washes their dirty false teeth for them while they are asleep). And yet he can't help admitting guiltily that he feels slightly ashamed of their poverty and eccentricity in front of his posher school friends. If there is mockery in this portrait, it is the same compassionate mockery that informs all of Bennett's sketches of recognizably fallible human beings - tears and laughter are close in each episode. (Kirkus UK)
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A set of ten autobiographical tales from Bennett, dealing with his childhood and upbringing in Leeds during the 1940s. They focus on his relationship with his parents, and we discover how his family shaped the man who has become one of Britain's best-loved writers.
'Life is something that happens elsewhere' reflects Alan Bennett sadly. Situations that might seem fortunate to others are merely negative to him - no bombs falling on Leeds during World War II meant no shrapnel for young Alan to collect. Anyone who listened to Bennett telling his tales of growing up in Leeds during the war, will recognize the self-deprecating attitude and remember the downbeat inflection and the north country accent that seems to colour his thoughts, for these are the same tales brought out in book form. Similarly anyone familiar with Bennett's plays, such as The Lady in the Van, or his television soliloquies Talking Heads knows that he is a brilliant verbal portrait painter, and the kernel of each of these ten chapters in this collection is the loving picture that he paints of his own parents. He tells us the moving story of two infinitely unselfish people and their serious, unworldly schoolboy son who longs to protect them from the hardships of wartime life (he even washes their dirty false teeth for them while they are asleep). And yet he can't help admitting guiltily that he feels slightly ashamed of their poverty and eccentricity in front of his posher school friends. If there is mockery in this portrait, it is the same compassionate mockery that informs all of Bennett's sketches of recognizably fallible human beings - tears and laughter are close in each episode. (Kirkus UK)
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A set of ten autobiographical tales from Bennett, dealing with his childhood and upbringing in Leeds during the 1940s. They focus on his relationship with his parents, and we discover how his family shaped the man who has become one of Britain's best-loved writers.