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Summary: An enjoyable little romp
Review: As a previous reviewer mention, this book is only tangentally related to Frayn's "Copenhagen." Your enjoyment of it will have little to do with what you thought of the play. "The Copenhagen Papers" is an interchange between the author of "Copehagen" and an actor friend of his concerning some mysterious documents dated from World War II. It's a fun little book that made me wish I could goof off with my friends in some clever sort of way.
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Summary: An enjoyable little romp
Review: As a previous reviewer mention, this book is only tangentally related to Frayn's "Copenhagen." Your enjoyment of it will have little to do with what you thought of the play. "The Copenhagen Papers" is an interchange between the author of "Copehagen" and an actor friend of his concerning some mysterious documents dated from World War II. It's a fun little book that made me wish I could goof off with my friends in some clever sort of way.
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Summary: Not really a companion to the play...
Review: I loved the play Copenhagen - saw it four times, and it re-sparked my interest in physics, which I read about as a hobby. I know, weird, but whatever, I'm a smart chick.Anyway, this book isn't about the play at all, really, it's about an exchange of letters between the author and one of the actors in the London production of Copenhagen. And it's well-crafted, I think anyone who enjoys a good mystery, and a bit of the backstage goings-on would enjoy the book. It certainly captivated me and both Michael Frayn and David Burke write well and with a good deal of dry British humor.
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Summary: Not What I Expected
Review: I thought COPENHAGEN was a great play, and I picked up this
book thinking it was background for the play (the bookjacket
gives some hints that that isn't the case, but I didn't bother
to read that. Anyway, it turns out to be less than that, and
also much more. I was sucked into the mystery along with
Michael Frayn, and read it in one sitting (it's short). I
highly recommend it for pure entertainment.
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Summary: A Sly Meditation On The Nature Of Reality
Review: This is a marvellous entertainment - I'm not sure whether I should correctly describe it as either a memoir or novelette - which explores the nature of reality. It's not really a sequel to Michael Frayn's splendid play "Copenhagen", but does delve into some of the same terrain as the play. Instead, it is a witty exchange of thoughts and letters sent between Michael Frayn and actor David Burke (He portrayed physicist Niels Bohr during the play's original London production) about a set of manuscripts which allegedly date from the internment of German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his colleagues at Farm Hall immediately after the end of World War II. What follows is a terse, spellbinding mystery which is well told by both writers, replete with ample doses of English humor.
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