The Noël Coward Reader

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The Noël Coward Reader

By Barry Day

Knopf, 596 pages, $39.95

Oscar Wilde famously said that he had merely put his talent into his work—he saved his genius for his life. In Noël Coward's lifetime, it seems that he, too, relished dancing along the divide between his life and his art, appearing content to pour much of his inspiration into maintaining a certain style. He crafted what became a familiar vision of the wry sophisticate, kitted out in smoking jacket or tuxedo, with Gertrude Lawrence on his arm, cigarette holder in hand, a bon mot on his lips. He loved to point out the songs that he knocked off between tea and cocktails, and the plays that he wrote in three days.

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