A01=Julian Mitchell
Author_Julian Mitchell
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Product details
- ISBN 9780571304165
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2013
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Julian Mitchell's fifth novel, first published in 1966, is the story of Martin Bannister, whose lonely bachelor life in Manhattan is transformed by a meeting with desirable redhead Henrietta Grigson and her husband Freddy, with whom he embarks on a heady social whirl. But Martin has a surprise in store - a plot twist the real-life inspiration for which Julian Mitchell divulges in his new preface to this Faber Finds edition.
'A comedy that is delightfully human, played by characters who have the edgy vitality of real life.' Evening Standard
'Mitchell is a writer of the most supple technical accomplishment.' Telegraph
'Ingeniously constructed and excellently written.' Listener
Julian Mitchell (b. 1935), is an English playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist. He is best known as the writer of the play and film Another Country, and as a screenwriter for TV, producing many original plays and series episodes, including at least ten for Inspector Morse. Born in Epping, Essex, and educated at Winchester College and Oxford, he would publish six novels in the 1960s (all of them since reissued in Faber Finds) including the prizewinning The White Father (1964), before shifting his focus to theatre - a move which has come to appear permanent.
