PositiveProspect (UK)\"I don’t think that Lee gets him wrong at all ... This is a biography that charts not just physical journeys but also the journey from blindness to self-knowledge ... While Lee’s book offers few new revelations, its achievement is the rounded portrait that emerges, that of an artist whose work has become ever more interesting the more he has been present in it ... While sometimes the meticulousness feels like the mere accumulation of trivia, on occasion it is illuminating ... As you might expect from an authorised biographer, Lee is sometimes a little breathless—it seems like she has fallen for Stoppard’s legendary charm ... Lee’s accomplished biography suggests that while the playwright who understands his own mystery and his own history is no less alone, he is a much more potent artist than the one who refuses to reflect upon the self.
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