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    Private Lives
    Private Lives
    Private Lives
    Audiobook1 hour

    Private Lives

    Written by Noel Coward

    Narrated by Rosalind Ayres and Full Cast

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    About this audiobook

    The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.

    An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Rosalind Ayres, Marnie Mosiman, Ian Ogilvy, Begonya Piazza and Kristoffer Tabori.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateNov 1, 2005
    ISBN9781580815024
    Private Lives
    Author

    Noel Coward

    Noel Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933), and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and This Happy Breed (1942). In the fifties he started a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), two volumes of autobiography, and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964), and Bon Voyage (l967). Coward was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.

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    • 3/5
      I would actually give this book 3 1/2. It is a little less predictable than "Hay Fever" and I think it is an interesting exploration of how intimacy and human relationships can go awry with people so oppositely matched. It's also really amusing to see the back and forth of the twisted conversations that the main characters have. It's hard to tell at some times whether they are going to end up in bed or simply killing eachother. It's sort of like the literary or even conversational equivalent to a roller coaster ride.
    • 5/5
      Marvelous. Noel Coward at his best......performed by top-notch performers.
    • 3/5
      A silly rambling book, With elements of handling subjects such as hypocrisy and the crisis of finding love in flaws, And the meaninglessness of existence.