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Name: Hermione Lee - Tom Stoppard- A Life (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 74.4 MB

Title: Tom Stoppard
Author: Hermione Lee
Language: English
Year: 2020
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: N/A
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A perfect match of writer and subject: one of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights-with his cooperation and access to a trove of hitherto unseen material.
Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deploys art, science, history, politics, and philosophy in works that span a remarkable spectrum of literary genres: theater, radio, film, TV, journalism, and fiction. His most acclaimed creations-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Shakespeare in Love-remain as fresh and moving as when they dazzled their first audiences. Stoppard's life, too, is fascinating: born in Czechoslovakia, he escaped the Nazis with his mother and spent his early years in Singapore and India before arriving in England at age eight. Skipping university, he embarked on a brilliant...