Uncommon reader
Pocketbok. Profile Books Ltd. 2008. 128 sidor.
Nyskick. Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminister travelling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. The following week her choice proves more enjoyable and awakens Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781846681332
- Titel
- Uncommon reader
- Författare
- Alan Bennett
- Förlag
- Profile Books Ltd
- Utgivningsår
- 2008
- Omfång
- 128 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 110 x 178 mm Ryggbredd 9 mm
- Vikt
- 100 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- "The Uncommon Reader" is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.
