A play by one of Britains best-selling writersBazaar and Rummage brings together a neurotic do-gooder; a trainee social worker and three agoraphobics who have been persuaded to venture out of their homes to run a jumble sale. "As a study of agoraphobia; Bazaar and Rummage...is written with great verve; style and wit." (Benedict Nightingale); Set in an adult literacy class where the students fear of ignorance is as much of a handicap as their inability to read; Groping for Words is a "close up of the social scrap-heap; written in a fine vein of comic indignation and giving a voice to people whose lives are mainly spent in queues and waiting rooms." (Irving Wardle; The Times); Womberang shows free spirit Rita Onions bringing joy and anarchy to the grim waiting-room of a gynaecology clinic. "A daydream of mastered fear" (New Society)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. I grew up in Nazi Germany and read LTI soon ...By Joachim ZimmerI grew up in Nazi Germany and read LTI soon after it had come out in the 1940s. Klempreres critique of the Nazi language against the background of his suffering as a Jew is unique. LTI was a key contribution to my post war enlightenment.Reading the book more than 60 years later has once more been fascinating as the history of a dictatorships perversion of language.But now it has also made me more alert to the changes which marketing; managment; corporate and IT word creations are doing to the English language. Are we just as indifferent to it as I was to LTI?JZ
