Books by Michael Frayn and Complete Book Reviews

Michael Frayn, Author . Metropolitan $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7058-3
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.SPIESMichael Frayn. Metropolitan, $23 (261p) ISBN 0-8050-7058-3By the author of the bestselling
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Michael Frayn, Author . Holt/Metropolitan $32.50 (505p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8148-0
British playwright and novelist Frayn has nursed a serious interest in philosophy since studying it at Cambridge in the 1950s, a fact that won't surprise fans of the writer best known for his 1982 farce, Noises Off , and award-winning 1998 drama,
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Michael Frayn, Author Penguin Books $9.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-023235-6
Frayn's wicked but unconvincing satire of the British Civil Service centers on the unscrupulous, womanizing director of an agency that publicizes embarrassing stories about the British government. (Feb.)
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Michael Frayn, Author Metropolitan Books $26 (342p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6285-4
Frayn, a highly successful playwright (Noises Off) as well as a novelist of note (A Landing on the Sun; Now You Know), is an odd combination of skilled farceur and scholar, and these strands in his work seem somewhat at odds in this new novel, his...
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Michael Frayn, Author Viking Books $17.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-82985-9
As wickedly funny as it is intelligent and perceptive, this first work of fiction in 16 years by the British playwright ( Noises Off ; The Benefactors ) and novelist ( Sweet Dreams ) is a reader's delight. In a series of letters to a colleague in...
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Michael Frayn, Author Viking Books $21 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-83932-2
Frayn, a hit British dramatist ( Noises Off ) and comic novelist ( The Trick of It ) has created a tender civil service comedy of the kind that only an Englishman could bring off. The almost anonymous narrator, a basically dry-as- dust denizen of...
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Michael Frayn, Author Penguin Books $8.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-012651-8
After a literary critic weds the novelist whose work he most admires, he becomes frustrated that he can neither influence what she writes nor write as well as she. According to PW, Frayn ``can take a serious theme, spin it out into deliciously...
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Michael Frayn, Author Viking Books $21 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-84554-5
Frayn ( A Landing on the Sun ) again wickedly anatomizes the British civil service; this time his effort is more virtuosic, yet ultimately less affecting. His protagonist, Terry, runs an eccentric group dedicated to digging out and publicizing the...
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Michael Frayn, Author Penguin Books $10 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-017700-8
Frayn's tender comedy tells of the strange romance of a civil servant and a Russian-born Oxford philosophy don. (Mar.)
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Michael Frayn, Metropolitan, $25 (270p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9377-3
A sprightly, warmhearted memoir of his dapper salesman father takes playwright and novelist Frayn (Spies) from working-class London through two world wars. Thomas Frayn died in 1970 at the age of 69, largely deaf but still actively selling roofing...
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Michael Frayn. Metropolitan, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9549-4
Frayn’s latest (after Afterlife) is a wacky case of mistaken identity set on the luxurious Greek island of Skios. Nikki Hook is arranging the Fred Toppler Foundation’s annual gala, a celebration of culture attended by academic heavyweights and...
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Michael Frayn, Author, David Burke, Author, David Burke, Joint Author . Metropolitan $20 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6752-1
While Frayn's play Copenhagen won three Tony awards in 2000 (including best play), and the London playwright has Noises Off and the Booker Prize finalist Headlong to his credit, he doesn't enjoy the same name recognition here as does, say,
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