A memoir of a little-known corner of EuropePatrick Garland has had a house in a small village on Corsica since the 60s. He has returned year after year and watched as the traditional way of life of this one village gradually fades away and surrenders to the encroachment of tourism and modern life. Whenever a village elder dies, they take with them knowledge and traditions which have not been passed on to their successors. Garland is a consummate storyteller and weaves together the experiences he has had and the tales he has been told over his long acquaintance with the island. This is a charming and moving portrait of a way of life and a community which will soon be lost.
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Interest Age: From 18 years
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 153 mm
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978-0-333-78156-2 (9780333781562)
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Patrick Garland is an actor and a director of British theatre, television and film, and a writer. Among many productions, he directed the revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway in the early 1980s with Rex Harrison (about whom he wrote The Incomparable Rex) and the musical Billy with Michael Crawford at Drury Lane, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Handel's opera Ottone. He directed his own play, Brief Lives, based on the life and writing of John Aubrey, and starring Roy Dotrice in the premiere and Michael Williams in the revival. He also directed Eileen Atkins in his own adaptation of Virginia Woolf's book A Room of One's Own. On Queen Elizabeth II's sixtieth birthday he directed Fanfare for Elizabeth at Covent Garden in 1989 he directed the Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Olivier. He is married to the actress Alexandra Bastedo.
