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At Freddie's - Paperback

by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Availability:In StockContributor:Penelope FitzgeraldPublish date:2022-08-16Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PaperbacksISBN-13:9780544359482ISBN-10:544359488UPC:9780544359482Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, WomenSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC8DVBEENJ
"A jewel of a book." --Daily Mail

It is the 1960s, in London's West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School, which supplies child actors for everything from Shakespeare to musicals to the Christmas pantomime. Of unknown age and provenance, Freddie is a skirt-swathed enigma--a woman who by sheer force of character and single-minded thrust has turned herself and her school into a national institution. Anyone who is anyone must know Freddie.

Filled with unique and hilarious insights into the theatrical world, At Freddie's is a beguiling story for those of us who sometimes pretend to be something we are not.

"Love, fear, class, ambition, even death--it's all in here, but so elegantly presented that you've finished your plate before you even think to ask about the ingredients." --National Public Radio
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PaperbacksISBN-13:9780544359482ISBN-10:544359488UPC:9780544359482Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, WomenSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC8DVBEENJ
PENELOPE FITZGERALD (1916-2000) was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for The Blue Flower, the Booker Prize for Offshore, and three of her novels -- The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, and The Beginning of Spring -- were short-listed for the Booker Prize.
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

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