Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward
by Oliver Soden
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1474612806
- ISBN 13
- 9781474612807
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 634 pages, color, b&w illustrations. The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the world. Phrases from Noël Coward's songs - "Mad About The Boy", "Mad Dogs and Englishman" - are forever lodged in the public consciousness. He was at one point the most highly paid author in the world. Yet some of his most striking and daring writing remains unfamiliar. As T.S. Eliot said, in 1954, "there are things you can learn from Noël Coward that you won't learn from Shakespeare". Coward wrote some fifty plays and nine musicals, as well as revues, screenplays, short stories, poetry, and a novel. He was both composer and lyricist for approximately 675 songs. And so daring was Coward's unorthdoxy in his closest relationships, obliquely reflected throughout his writing, that it must also be a history of sexual liberation in the twentieth century. In Oliver Soden's sparkling, story-packed new Life, the Master finally gets his due. Clean copy. Record # 385594
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385594
- Title
- Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward
- Author
- Oliver Soden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1474612806
- ISBN 13
- 9781474612807
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- Biography, Theater, , .
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- Biography;
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