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Out After Dark (Methuen biography)

Out After Dark (Methuen biography)

by HughLeonard (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $3.25

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    Hardcover 1989

    $3.25
Synopsis

This title presents the memoirs of Ireland's acclaimed author and playwright, Hugh Leonard. Born in 1926 in Dublin, he was educated at Presentation College, Dun Laoghaire. He is an award winning playwright and screenwriter, and was Literary Editor at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1976-77. He now lives in Dalkey in County Dublin. This second volume of autobiography is a portrait of adolescence in Dublin in the 1940s and 1950s: schooldays and altar-boyhood, early bliss in the sevenpennies at the Astoria, problems with Gloria and Dolores. Leonard stirs in theatre ancedotes, vignettes of Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan and divulges his own beginnings as a writer. The result is a humorous analysis of Dublin and Dubliners.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 210
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Published: 09 May 2002
ISBN 10: 0413771482
ISBN 13: 9780413771483
Book Overview: Hugh Leonard is the author of Home Before Night , a memoir of his early childhood, and the bestselling novel A Wild People . He is also an established playwright and screenplay writer, adapting Great Expectations , Nicholas Nickleby and The Moonstone for TV, and winning a Tony Award for his play Da . His novelisation of his 4-part drama Parnell and the Englishwoman won the 1992 Sagittarius Award.

Author Bio
Hugh Leonard (1926-2009) was the author of numerous plays, including The Au Pair Man and The Poker Session, the screenplay for the film Widow's Peak, and TV adaptations of Great Expectations, Good Behaviour, The Moonstone, Nicholas Nickleby, and Wuthering Heights. His novelisation of his 4-part drama Parnell and the Englishwoman (BBC) won the 1992 Sagittarius Award.