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Title: The Laying On of Hands: Stories by Alan Bennett ISBN: 0-312-42225-3 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Classic from a Master
Comment: Alan Bennett is the classiest act in literature. His personal style--wry, self-effacing--shades his writing, which manages to be delicate, ironic, and hysterically funny all at once. The title story is destined to be a classic, and if you loved "The Clothes They Stood Up In," it's sure to be something you read and reread. It's genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, and it's quite astonishing how a seemingly lightweight take about the death of an ambisexual masseur can hone in on people's hopes and fears without ever becoming less than a breathtaking feat. The second, also more a novella than a shirt story, is less impressive but still very funny, sexy, and also sweet. The last is the least compelling--the prat of a protagonist makes it rough going--but this is the shortest of the lot by far. And the first take alone is well worth the price.

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