{"product_id":"the-blue-touch-paper-a-memoir-9780393249187","title":"The Blue Touch Paper  A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Frank, moving, and beguiling, \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Touch Paper\u003c\/em\u003e is the fascinating story of becoming a writer in the 1960s and 70s when Britain was changing even faster than the author.”—Joan Didion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A master class in how private reckonings sometimes find their greatest resonance on the stage.\" -- Megan O'Grady - Vogue\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly articulate and probing self-examination that is at the same time a vivid cultural study of postwar Britain.\" -- Charles McNulty - Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\"An intelligent, unsentimental glimpse inside the creative process. . . . [A] sometimes abrasive, always engaging account of [Hare’s] changing dramatic ideals.\" -- Wendy Smith - Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"[Hare] has a lightness of touch and a casual eloquence that might surprise those familiar with [his] knotty, politically engaged dramas. . . . He also tosses in enough juicy backstage stories.\" -- Charles Isherwood - New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"What’s extraordinary about \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Touch Paper\u003c\/em\u003e is how much intellection and drama and sensibility and wit Mr. Hare squeezes into [it]. This is no butterfly-watching stroll through a life. Mr. Hare is a man who seizes on details and ideas, and who writes as if words matter.\" -- Dwight Garner - New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderfully entertaining…. You have to admire Hare’s appetite to engage with his times with such savage gusto…. \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Touch Paper\u003c\/em\u003e is an engrossing dive into the passions, the disappointments, the quarrels and the elation of a great professional trying to get something done.\" -- Tina Brown - New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Blue Touch Paper\u003c\/em\u003e encompasses exquisitely rendered love stories, rousing arguments about the relationship between art and politics, great gossip, and far, far more. A book that contained only one of those pleasures would be good news; a book that contains all of them is a legitimate treasure.\" -- Michael Cunningham\u003cbr\u003e\"Frank, moving, and beguiling, \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Touch Paper\u003c\/em\u003e is the fascinating story of becoming a writer in the 1960s and ’70s when Britain was changing even faster than the author.\" -- Joan Didion","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525129675095,"sku":"9780393249187","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393249187.jpg?v=1731859337","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-blue-touch-paper-a-memoir-9780393249187","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}