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Includes such stories as: "Father! Father! Burning Bright"; "The Clothes They Stood Up In"; "The Laying on of Hands"; and "The Lady in the Van".
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The Laying on of Hands: the painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. The Clothes They Stood Up In: the comic tale of a couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. Father! Father! Burning Bright: the savage satire on the family of a dying man who rules over them from his hospital bed. The Lady in the Van: the true story of the eccentric old woman who is invited to live in a homeowner's front garden. She stays there, in her van, for fifteen years. The home is Alan Bennett's.
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