Lady in the Van: Screenplay -- Alan Bennett

<p><b>Now a major motion picture starring Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett's famous and heartwarming story The Lady in the Van, and more of Bennett's classic short-form work</b> <p/>Alan Bennett has long been one of the world's most revered humorists. From his acclaimed story collection <i>Smut </i>to his hilarious and sharply observed <i>The Uncommon Reader, </i> Bennett has consistently remained one of literature's most acute observers of Britain and life's many absurdities. <p/>In this new collection, drawn from his wide-ranging career, you'll read some of Bennett's finest work, including the title story, the basis for a new feature film starring Maggie Smith. The book also includes the rollicking comic masterpiece The Laying on of Hands and the bittersweet Father! Father! Burning Bright, Bennett's classic tale of the tense relationship between a man and his dying father.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Alan Bennett<br><b>Publisher:</b> Picador Paper<br><b>Published:</b> 12/01/2015<br><b>Pages:</b> 240<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.45lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781250089724<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Alan Bennett</b> has been one of England's leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His work includes the Talking Heads television series, and the stage plays <i>Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution</i>, and <i>The Madness of King George III</i>. His play, <i>The Histo