How's that for Telling 'em, Fat Lady?: A Short Life in the American Theatre
- ISBN-10
- 0571151396
- ISBN-13
- 9780571151394
- Category
- Dramatists, English
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Author
- Simon Gray
Description
In An Unnatural Pursuit Simon Gray wrote an hilarious account of what it's like to be tortured, paranoid and a playwright. Here, in How's That For Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?, he takes on the United States - from coast to coast. The result is the funniest book ever written about the American theatre, a blackly comic portrait of the author and the grotesque characters he encounters on his travels.
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