The Singing Detective

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by Dennis Potter

Type: Screenplays
Subject: One Film > The Singing Detective (TV Series)
Keywords: TV Series, screenplay
Publishing date: 2003
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Collection: Classic Screenplays
Language: English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 249 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-571-14590-6
978-0-571-14590-4

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Book Presentation:
This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter’s acclaimed six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with the plot of his atmospheric thriller to the point where fantasy and reality seem to exchange places. The result is the most painful and disturbing screen drama of the 1980s.

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…

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