Travels with a Typewriter

A Reporter at Large

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Michael Frayn

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'All writers of fiction should be required, by law, to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind them.' This is what Frayn did in mid-career, when he took up his old trade, journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles about some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to describe 'not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday' and his accounts became the starting point for some of the novels and plays he wrote later. From a kibbutz in Israel to summer rains in Japan, bicycles in Cambridge to Notting Hill at the end of the 1950s, they are glimpses of a world which sometimes seems tantalisingly familiar, sometimes vanished forever.

Author Biography:

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It, and Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most recent novel, Spies, won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently, Afterlife.

Release date Australia

September 2nd, 2010

Author

Michael Frayn

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Pages

288

Dimensions

126x198x18

ISBN-13

9780571240906

Product ID

7167714

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