Mainly about Lindsay Anderson : a memoir
Gavin Lambert (Author)
"Lambert celebrates Anderson's inimitable films (If . . ., O Lucky Man, Britannia Hospital), and his remarkable theatrical collaborations with David Storey (The Changing Room, Home, In Celebration) amongst others. Moreover he weighs Anderson's love-hate engagement with Britain, 'this remarkably irritating, paradoxical country': a place so often excoriated in his work but from which, unlike Lambert, Anderson could not remove himself." "Lambert has had unique access to Anderson's correspondence files and to the diaries that he kept across fifty years (1942-92). These are shot through with personal pain, a 'dark mirror' of Anderson's dynamic and combative public persona. But they offer us privileged insights into the emotional life of this formidably gifted man. Lambert has also conducted interviews with Anderson's colleagues and friends, including Alan Bates, Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears, Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren and David Storey. In tandem with these reminiscences are Lambert's reflections on his own life, and the affinities and disparities he discerned between himself and his remarkable friend."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
Faber and Faber, London, 2000