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Collected Columns

I hadn't read anything by Michael Frayn, although of course he is known for various other...

Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn originally came to prominence as the writer of short, surreal, razor-sharp explorations of human foibles, sex, politics, manners, and the events of the day. Here are 110 of his finest and funniest pieces, selected and introduced by himself. Michael Frayn is the author of plays including Copenhagen, novels including Headlong, and the recent philosophy work The Human Touch.

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  • Pages: 500 pages
  • ISBN: 9780413776488 / 413776484
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I hadn't read anything by Michael Frayn, although of course he is known for various other artistic activities. This book was hilarious in places, but also profoundly observant and usually interesting. The columns cover a long period of time, but very little was dated. It can really be regarded as something of a source book for British... A collection of Frayn's columns, mostly from the 1960s, with a few from the 1990s. It turned out that I'd read almost all of the 1960s columns before, from other, smaller collections, and that my memories of them are very clear, so there wasn't much feeling of rediscovery. The later pieces, which I hadn't read before, are relatively...


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