Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

The blue touch paper : a memoir / David Hare.

by Hare, David, 1947-

View full image

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2015.

Hare, David, 1947-

Dramatists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.

Screenwriters -- Great Britain -- Biography

Motion picture authorship -- Great Britain -- Biography.

9780393249187 (hc.)

First American edition.

xiv, 347 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

David Hare has long been one of Britain's best-known screenwriters and dramatists. He's the author of more than thirty acclaimed plays that have appeared on Broadway, in the West End, and at the National Theatre. He wrote the screenplays for the hugely successful films The Hours, Plenty, and The Reader. In this memoir, he offers a vibrant and affecting account of becoming a writer amid the enormous flux of postwar England. In his customarily dazzling prose and with great warmth and humor, he takes us from his university days at Cambridge to the swinging 1960s, when he cofounded the influential Portable Theatre in London and took a memorable road trip across America, to his breakthrough successes as a playwright amid the political ferment of the '70s and the moment when Margaret Thatcher came to power at the end of the decade. Through it all, Hare sets the progress of his own life against the dramatic changes in postwar England, in which faith in hierarchy, religion, empire, and the public good all withered away. Filled with indelible glimpses of such figures as Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Helen Mirren, and Joseph Papp - a powerful evocation of a society in transition and a writer in the making.

Autobiographies.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal