Human Voices (Paperback: MARINER BOOKS: 143 pages)
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| Author: | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| Format: | Paperback: MARINER BOOKS: 143 pages. |
| Publisher: | Mariner Books (05/05/1999) |
| ISBN: | 039595617X |
| ISBN13: | 9780395956175 |
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Pro Reviews: Human Voices
Ingeniously delivered tragicomedy from one of the very finest of writers. The feel of history, England under the blitz, civilization at the brink of doom--all with perfect stories, too, of private hearts.
This is the story of the BBC's Broadcasting House and its dedicated functionaries.It is a laconic, often comic look at the men and women of 'BH.' By virtue of its understated tone, it is also a quietly moving sliver of a wartime tale.
Publisher Notes: Human Voices
- When British listeners tuned in to the BBC's Nine O'Clock News in the middle of 1940, they had no idea what human dramas-and follies-were unfolding behind the scenes. Targeted by enemy bombers, the BBC had turned its concert hall into a dormitory for both sexes, and personal chaos rivaled the political. The tense relationship between two departmental directors is at the center of Human Voices, as is Annie, a sixteen-year-old assistant who falls hopelessly in love with the monstrously selfish one. Reading this intimate glimpse behind the scenes of the BBC in its heyday, "one is left with the sensation," William Boyd wrote in London Magazine, "that this is what is was really like."
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