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Article: Life in Progress? A Canadian academic attempts a biography of British playwright Tom Stoppard.(Book Review)
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- The World and I
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- May 1, 2003
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Herb Greer is a contributing editor to the Arts section of the The World & I. His review of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia appears in this month's Arts section on page 98.
Book Info:TOM STOPPARD
A Life
Ira Nadel
Publisher:New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
384 pp., $29.95
Tom Stoppard has been one of the most delightful of British playwrights. At their best, his dramatic experiments in the use of probability theory, physics, and the mathematics of chaos, leavened with an astonishing facility in the comic ambiguities of the English language, have made him internationally popular.
Readers of Tom Stoppard: A Life will therefore be surprised ...