Results for: books tagged ‘Suburbia’
East of Wimbledon: Nigel Williams
Welcome to the Dollhouse: Todd Solondz
Welcome to the Dollhouse is a stark suburban comedy about 11-year-old Dawn Weiner, a middle child in middle school in the middle of New Jersey. Sometimes hated, often reviled, seldom ... More
The Wimbledon Poisoner: Nigel Williams
Adventures of a Suburban Boy: John Boorman
John Boorman, hailed by the Observer as 'arguably Britain's greatest living director', offers an enthralling memoir of a creative life spent turning dreams into celluloid, and money into light. One ... More
My Ear at His Heart: Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own ... More
Epitaph for George Dillon: John Osborne and Anthony Creighton
John Osborne's domestic and political drama of hope and disillusionment is set in a lower-middle-class household in South London. The Elliots live their unhappy suburban life until Kate Elliot brings ... More
It's All Right Now: Charles Chadwick
An epic of suburban life and a debut of staggering scope, intimacy and warmth, It's All Right Now is the story of Tom Ripple, an ordinary man living an ordinary ... More
No Fireworks: Rodge Glass
Abe Stone is a 61-year-old alcoholic with a Henry VIII fixation going through his third divorce. When he starts receiving letters from his dead mother, Evelyn, he is thrown into ... More
Arlington Park: Rachel Cusk
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments ... More
The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder: Matt Charman
No family photograph can truly prepare Rowena for her first meeting with Maurice’s three wives and teenage son. Young, nervous and extremely pregnant, she is warmly welcomed into the fold ... More
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