The Young Pretender

Zusatztext Michael Arditti tells a story of a Regency child star with great panache and compassion, bringing a forgotten celebrity back to life for the modern age. A compelling read I was sad to finish. Informationen zum Autor Michael Arditti is a novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents ( Pagan's Father in the USA) (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006), The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011), The Breath of Night (2013), Widows and Orphans (2016), Of Men and Angels (2018) and The Anointed (2020). His short story collection, Good Clean Fun , was published in 2004. He was awarded a Harold Hyam Wingate scholarship in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund fellowship in 2001, an Oppenheim-John Downes memorial award in 2003 and Arts Council awards in 2004 and 2007. He was the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud museum in 2008. His novels have been short- and long-listed for several literary awards and Easter won the inaugural Waterstone's Mardi Gras award. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Chester. Klappentext The irresistible return to fame of the remarkable child actor Master William Betty, mobbed by the masses, courted by royalty, and one of the most famous people in Georgian Britain Vorwort The irresistible return to fame of the remarkable child actor Master William Betty, mobbed by the masses, courted by royalty, and one of the most famous people in Georgian Britain Zusammenfassung The irresistible return to fame of the remarkable child actor Master William Betty, mobbed by the masses, courted by royalty, and one of the most famous people in Georgian Britain

Product details

• Authors: Michael Arditti
• Publisher: Arcadia Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2022
• EAN: 9781529422559
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-2255-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Individual actors and performers, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction