Additional Michael Frayn; Author: Frayn, Michael; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size

Author: Frayn, Michael
Methuen Humour; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size
227 pages
Published: June 2000
Methuen Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0413747603

This companion to the highly successful Original Michael Frayn, incorporates the Speak After the Beep collection, originally published to huge acclaim and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, with a selection of Frayn's own favorites from over the years, including Brought to Book, his defense against a charge of plagiarism brought after his novel Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize.More comic essays from Michael Frayn to follow-up 'The Original Michael Frayn'. This volume collects more comic prose pieces from the writer of the play Copenhagen and the more comic novel 'Headlong'. Frayn regularly receives publicity and does signings.Many of the humorous essays collected in this volume first appeared in the Guardian and the Observer newspapers over a three decade span, from the 1970s to the 1990s. Their common feature is Frayn's consideration of communication with inanimate and semi-inanimate objects.