Research Catalog

Title

Tom Stoppard : a life / Hermione Lee.

Author

Lee, Hermione

Publication

• New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
• ©2020

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Details

Subject

• Stoppard, Tom
• Authors, English > 20th century > Biography
• Dramatists, English > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Note

• "This is a Borzoi book" -- title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [765]-770) and index.

Contents

First acts -- In transit -- Englishness -- The newcomer -- Brennus -- Walking on water -- On the scene -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- Success -- Miriam -- 'Tom Stoppard doesn't know' -- Acrobatics -- The home team -- Travesties -- Terra firma -- Prisoners of conscience -- The fourth estate -- Undiscovered countries -- The real thing -- Crossing -- Doubles -- Script doctor -- Changing states -- Arcadia -- Mother and son -- Reinventions -- The scar of time -- Sir Tom, OM -- Utopia -- Commitments and engagements -- Rock 'n' roll -- Parade's end -- Circumspice -- The eightieth year -- A charmed life.

Call Number

JFE 21-5073

ISBN

• 9780451493224
• 0451493222

LCCN

• 2020023897
• 40030173476

OCLC

1157677048

Author

Lee, Hermione, author.

Title

Tom Stoppard : a life / Hermione Lee.

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First American edition.

Description

x, 872 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Summary

"A perfect match of writer and subject: one of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights--with his cooperation and access to a trove of hitherto unseen material. Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deploys art, science, history, politics, and philosophy in works that span a remarkable spectrum of literary genres: theater, radio, film, TV, journalism, and fiction. His most acclaimed creations--Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Shakespeare in Love--remain as fresh and moving as when they dazzled their first audiences. Stoppard's life, too, is fascinating: born in Czechoslovakia, he escaped the Nazis with his mother and spent his early years in Singapore and India before arriving in England at age eight. Skipping university, he embarked on a brilliant career, becoming close friends over the years with an astonishing array of writers, actors, directors, musicians, and political figures, from Peter O'Toole, Harold Pinter, and Stephen Spielberg to Mick Jagger and Vaclav Havel. Having long described himself as a "bounced Czech," Stoppard was surprised to learn late in life of his Jewish family and the relatives he lost to the Holocaust, secrets his mother had kept from him. Lee's in-depth analysis seamlessly weaves Stoppard's life and work together into a vivid, insightful, and always riveting portrait of a remarkable man"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [765]-770) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Lee, Hermione, 1948- Tom Stoppard New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 9780451493231 (DLC) 2020023898

Other Standard Identifier

40030173476

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5073