Smut: Two Unseemly Stories

Author: Alan Bennett

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  • : 9781846685262
  • : Allen & Unwin
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  • : January 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : April 2012
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Barcode 9781846685262
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Description

The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. Though her own husband isn't all that satisfactory either. Still, this is Alan Bennett, so what is happening in the bedroom (and in lots of other places too) is altogether more startling, perhaps shocking, and ultimately more true to people's predilections. The Greening of Mrs Donaldson Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more stimulating ...

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Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction

Awards

Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2012.

Reviews

'Beautiful and filthy' (Simon Hattenstone, Guardian)


 


'Amusingly peculiar... tender and comic... joyous anarchism... It is good, old-fashioned British humour with the lightest of subversive twists' (Arifa Akbar, Independent)


 


'Artfully entertaining... The stories have a dark, knowing shrewdness about erotic mischief, young and old... As always the writing is tonally perfect, laced with deadpan as well as bedpan comedy' (Simon Schama, FT)

Author description

Alan Bennett is one of the UK's most celebrated literary figures. He is the author of Untold Stories, and numerous works of fiction including The Uncommon Reader. His play The History Boys was the National Theatre's most successful production ever.