Wednesday, March 3, 2010

the lady in the van - alan bennett (1994)

a delightfully frothy biography which is unexpectedly laced with compassionate reality. i am almost sure the lady in question is a schizotypal p.d. who eventually lapses into frank psychosis, all the while maintaining a mystifying fifteen year friendship with the author. his humor is so sly that i almost miss the horror of her audacious toilet, and the pathos of her final decline.

this book could also be called the odd hermit and her sidekick. i love it.

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