Among Others
Friendships and Encounters
Published on 6. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-571-37861-6 (ISBN)
Description
'One of our best contemporary writers.' Sunday Telegraph
It's those around you who make you who you are.
Michael Frayn would like to say a brief word about a few of the people who have formed his
own particular world. Some were friends, some were not; some were more than friends.
Some have had a profound effect, some only a passing one. Some he now wonders if he ever
really knew. But each has had a formative effect on his own remarkable life.
Among Others is a patchwork memoir of a lifetime's encounters. Truthful and loving,
sometimes elegiac, sometimes comic, it is a celebration of the endlessly intriguing otherness
of others.
'The most philosophical comic writer - and the most comic philosophical writer - of our
time.' Daily Mail
It's those around you who make you who you are.
Michael Frayn would like to say a brief word about a few of the people who have formed his
own particular world. Some were friends, some were not; some were more than friends.
Some have had a profound effect, some only a passing one. Some he now wonders if he ever
really knew. But each has had a formative effect on his own remarkable life.
Among Others is a patchwork memoir of a lifetime's encounters. Truthful and loving,
sometimes elegiac, sometimes comic, it is a celebration of the endlessly intriguing otherness
of others.
'The most philosophical comic writer - and the most comic philosophical writer - of our
time.' Daily Mail
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
216 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-37861-6 (9780571378616)
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Person
Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong, Spies and Skios. His seventeen plays range from Noises Off, recently chosen as one of the nation's three favourite plays, to Copenhagen, which won the 1998 Evening Standard Award for Best Play of the Year and the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.