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    <body><![CDATA[He is fabulous, plain and simple. this is a collection of his writings - reviews, snippets, memoir bits, essays. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kate Bush can sing pi to umpteen digits and make it sound beautiful. I'm not sure about Alan Bennett's singing voice but he is someone who I could listen to pretty much all day with that calm, measured, slightly hesitatnt way of his ... and he writes that way too.<br/><br/>Bennett excels when it c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4602224">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have never heard his name as a writer, in fact he is one of England's leading playwrights as mentioned at its back cover. However, I kept reading any title I liked and found &quot;The Lady in the Van&quot; fantastic since he wrote from his life, in other words, from the true account of a lady tram...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65851369">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Alan Bennet stepped into the limelight with the celebrated Beyond the Fringe in 1960. This autobigraphical treasure by one of Britain and the world's leading playwrights. Don't miss  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[TREMENDOUS.  Full of fantastic essays, excerpts from larger works, bits of plays, glorious stuff.  Bennett is a really good and generous writer, and this is a cool introduction to him.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[lady in the van = GENIUS. as is everything else bennett has done - films, essays, plays...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I dearly love this man.  I have read this book over and over.]]></body>
    
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