Alan Bennett es autor de muchas y celebradas obras teatrales como "Habeas Corpus", "Forty One Years On", "Kafka's Dick" o "The Madness of George III" (adaptada después al cine), guiones cinematográficos como Prick Up Your Ears (basado en la vida de Joe Orton), y piezas televisivas, en especial "Talking Heads" y "An Englishman Abroad", que lo han convertido en uno de los autores británicos más queridos. Asimismo es muy apreciado como actor. Empezó a escribir es prosa hace solo unos diez años.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.
Killing Time is a wonderful surprise gift from Alan Bennett - a brand new story, set in a home for the elderly; a glorious, darkly comic treat.
'A mini-masterpiece.' THE TIMES
'Full of wit and style.' OBSERVER
'A terrific cast of characters, and secrets and chaos aplenty.' iNEWS
'A geriatric Lord of the Flies.' SPECTATOR
We have a choir and on special occasions a glass of dry sherry. It's less of a home and more of a club and very much a community.
Presided over by the lofty Mrs McBryde, Hill Topp House is a superior council home for the elderly. Among the unforgettable cast of staff and residents there's Mr Peckover the deluded archaeologist, Phyllis the knitter, Mr Cresswell the ex-cruise ship hairdresser, the enterprising Mrs Foss and Mr Jimson the chiropodist. Covid is the cause of fatalities and the source of darkly comic confusion, but it's also the key to liberation. As staff are hospitalised, protocol breaks down. Miss Rathbone reveals a lifelong secret, and the surviving residents seize their moment, arthritis allowing, to scamper freely in the warmth of the summer sun.
'Violet? She'll be having a little lie-down,' said Mrs McBryde. 'She likes to give her pacemaker a rest. I'll rout her out.'
Killing Time was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04/11/2024 to w/c 18/11/2024.
Title : Killing Time
EAN : 9780571394838
Publisher : Faber & Faber
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