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Article: Michael Frayn's "Spies" brings flavors of WWII to life.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- April 19, 2002
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In both his life and fiction, war is the stuff that games are made of for English novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.
In his new novel, "Spies" (Metropolitan Books, $23), Frayn takes two boys from innocent play to dangerous voyeurism when one of them announces, "My mother is a German spy." The boys decide to spy on her, with devastating results.
In a telephone interview from his study overlooking London's Regent Park, Frayn said he ruminated over this book for 25 years. Meanwhile, he tackled very different topics in his plays and novels.
In his backstage-to-footlights farce, "Noises Off," he looks at the art and artifice of acting. In his ...
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