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Aug 2011 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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72
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Mattie Beancourt, a 61- year-old woman, reads the autobiography of Mark Gorman, a famous painter. Having grown up in the same East End streets she writes to him. A correspondence develops.She visits him unannounced, and discovers he lives in near poverty and neglect. Her personality is sunny, his is curmudgeonly. Their impact upon each other is startling....
I was an appendage for him. Something stuck on, but not special. He didn’t need me. There was never any real passion there. To live a whole life knowing you were not special for anyone...craving it... to be loved and special. Just once in my life, before I die...
I was an appendage for him. Something stuck on, but not special. He didn’t need me. There was never any real passion there. To live a whole life knowing you were not special for anyone...craving it... to be loved and special. Just once in my life, before I die...
About the author
ARNOLD WESKER is one of the UK's most well known playwrights and writers having penned 42 plays and numerous volumes of short stories, essays, poetry and journalism. His plays have been translated into 17 languages, and are performed worldwide. When he exploded onto the British theatrical scene in the 1950's he was dubbed one of the 'angry, young men' of British theatre and has gone on to become a truly British institution.
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