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The Blue Touch Paper - A Memoir (Paperback, Main)
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The Blue Touch Paper - A Memoir (Paperback, Main)
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When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the
hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five
of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street
in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as completely vanished
as Victorian England. Now in his first panoramic work of memoir,
ending as Margaret Thatcher comes to power in 1979, David Hare
describes his childhood, his Anglo-Catholic education and his
painful apprenticeship to the trade of dramatist. He sets the
progress of his own life against the history of a time in which
faith in hierarchy, deference, religion, the empire and finally
politics all withered away. Only belief in private virtue remains.
In his customarily dazzling prose and with great warmth and humour,
David Hare explores how so radical a shift could have occurred, and
how it is reflected in his own lifelong engagement with two
disparate art forms - film and theatre. In The Blue Touch Paper
David Hare describes a life of trial and error: both how he became
a writer and the high price he and those around him paid for that
decision.
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