Author

Contributions

  • Arzu Tahsin (Editor) - Contributor

Publication

2005-03-01 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

112,000 words, Guess

Page Count

448 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCPN2598
  • DDC792.023/092/2
  • DDCB
and 1 more
  • LCCPN2598.E97 A3 2003

Description

"During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National Service is also a moving personal journey, charted faithfully by a fiercely self-aware and frequently self-doubting individual." "The job of grappling with a giant three-headed monster as complex as the National Theatre is laid before us. So are good gossip, brilliant insights into personalities and relationships and a sense of the ridiculous, which Eyre is powerless to suppress. Like other consummate diarists such as Alan Clark and Kenneth Tynan, Richard Eyre has a point of view that jolts the reader into fresh understanding - and is instantly compelling."--Jacket.

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  • National ServicePaperbackBloomsbury Publishing Plc2005-03-01

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