The Singing Detective
Published on 4. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-571-14590-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with the plot of his atmospheric thriller to the point where fantasy and reality seem to exchange places. The result is the most painful and disturbing screen drama of the 1980s.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
388 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-14590-4 (9780571145904)
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Person
Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.