Ticket to Ride - Hardcover

Potter, Dennis

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Synopsis

Boston & London:: Faber & Faber,, (1986.). Fine in very near fine dust jacket. . First US printing. A bleak thriller by the author of the screenplay for 'Pennies from Heaven' - his second novel and the first to be published in the US. The story of a degenerating mind, and the equally horrifying story of the degeneration of a marriage, reviewers described this as 'magnetically unputdownable' and as a 'grey forbidding masterpiece.' 202 pp.

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About the Author

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.

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