Tom Stoppard A Life

Hermione Lee, Stephen Crossley

eAudio - 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR • One of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest playwrights, drawing on a wealth of new materials and on many conversations with him.“An extraordinary record of a vital and evolving artistic life, replete with textured illuminations of the plays and their performances, and shaped by the arc of Stoppard’s exhilarating engagement with the world around him, and of his eventual awakening to his own past.” —Harper'sTom Stoppard (1937-2025) was a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deployed art, science, history, politics, and philosophy in works that span a remarkabl...e spectrum of literary genres: theater, radio, film, TV, journalism, and fiction. His most acclaimed creations—Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Thing, Arcadia, The Coast... more