9781582341606
Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Tynan; John Lahr
ISBN 13: 9781582341606
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
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Combining aethestics, theater, love, sex, and politics, a wickedly riveting glimpse into the life of the former critic for the London Observer shares his thoughts and observations on the historic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Forman, a controversial encounter between Marlene Deitrich and John F. Kennedy, and much more.
Review:
"[T]he diaries give us a glimpse of a radical 1960s sensibility, a Utopianism, that has oozed away. It was a time of liberation, of living life as fully as possible. Tynan's spirit of exploration--sexual, intellectual, artistic--comes across not only in all its splendid extravagance, but also in its grim misery. His 1970s diaries are not a patch on his 1950s reviews, but they do remind us of a world now lost."
Aleks Sierz, Independent (London), 11/02/2001
Review:"A candid and revealing snapshot of mid-20th-century cultural life, seen through eccentric but shrewdly perceptive eyes."
Kirkus, 11/01/2001
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