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A life like other people's / Alan Bennett

By:

Bennett, Alan, 1934-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2010.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 242 p. : ill., ports ; 18 cmISBN:

9780374191924

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 BEN

LOC classification:

PR6052.E5 Z463 2010

Summary: In this poignant memoir of his parents´ marriage, Alan Bennett recalls the lost world of his childhood and the lives, loves, and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen and Myra. First published in the acclaimed collectionUntold Stories, this tender, intimate family portrait beautifully captures the Bennetts´ hopes, disappointments, and yearning for a life like other people´s. With the sudden descent of his mother into depression, and later dementia, Bennett uncovers a long-held family secret in this extraordinarily moving and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015017

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"This material was originally published, in slightly different form, in Alan Bennett's untold stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this poignant memoir of his parents´ marriage, Alan Bennett recalls the lost world of his childhood and the lives, loves, and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen and Myra. First published in the acclaimed collectionUntold Stories, this tender, intimate family portrait beautifully captures the Bennetts´ hopes, disappointments, and yearning for a life like other people´s. With the sudden descent of his mother into depression, and later dementia, Bennett uncovers a long-held family secret in this extraordinarily moving and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography.

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