Keeping On Keeping On
Alan Bennett
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4.10
· 10 ratings · 560 pages · Published: 01 Jan 2016
This latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre ( The Habit of Art, People, Hymn and Cocktail Sticks ), a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van . There's a provocative sermon on private education given before the University at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and 'Baffled at a Bookcase' offers a passionate defence of the public library. The book includes Denmark Hill , a darkly comic radio play set in suburban south London, as well as Bennett's reflections on a quarter of a century's collaboration with Nicholas Hytner.
This is an engaging, humane, sharp, funny and unforgettable record of life according to the inimitable Alan Bennett.