Talk:Michael Frayn

Headlong link
This link simply leads back to the Michael Frayn article. Crouchend (talk) 23:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Early Life
"Frayn was born to a deaf asbestos salesman" - what? He didn't have a mother? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.25.34 (talk) 02:00, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Additional Novels
I added a few here. SmokeyTheCat 10:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Plays deleted?
Some of the plays are in red. Does this mean that somebody deleted the articles about them? If so why please? SmokeyTheCat 12:10, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It usually means that nobody has created the articles. Do have reason to believe they did exist and have been deleted? --ColinFine 23:13, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Okay thanks for the information. I may create some of the plays.SmokeyTheCat 08:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Entropy
What about the brilliantly comic story "Entropy" that was published in Playboy magazine?Lestrade 23:05, 7 September 2007 (UTC)Lestrade
 * That's "Against Entropy"; an unforgettable work of art.Lestrade (talk) 03:38, 9 November 2012 (UTC)Lestrade

Span
He uses "span" for the preterite of "spin" just like Arlo White. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.64.208.201 (talk) 17:42, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problem
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Unsupported attributions
I have removed the comment "Perhaps his best known work, and considered by many to be his finest", which began the paragraph on Copenhagen. Such statements are completely meaningless without sources. It could, for example, be said of a dozen of Shakespeare's plays and be equally true. I think that Copenhagen's importance and possible pre-eminence should be more specifically addressed and sourced. Fruit Flies Like a Banana (Talk) 04:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

'After the slump in asbestos prices, Frayn's sister supported the family...'
Hello there,

I'm suggesting this as a change since I am an employee of Faber Books and it may be inappropriate for me to make the change myself. Happy to make the change myself if this is ok by Wikipedia's rules.

The implication of this phrasing is inaccurate, and is unsupported by the source, My Father's Fortune by Michael Frayn. The carcinogenic effects of asbestos weren’t discovered until after Frayn's father died (p.250) and the idea of a slump in prices requiring Frayn's sister to support the family is not present in the text. While she did work as a children's hairdresser at Harrods (p.225), this is not implied to be due to a decline in family income but is just because she has become an adult – the section that mentions this takes place when Frayn is at university in his twenties. Here's the quote from page 225: 'The rest of my life, though, at Cambridge and beyond, now that my father has helped launch me upon it, is another story, and not one that I’m going to tell here. I’m often back in Chez Nous with my father again, first on leave from the army, then on vacation from the university. The geopolitics of the house have changed. My sister – now out at work all day, in Harrods, like our mother before her, though as a children’s hairdresser rather than a sales assistant – has taken over my old room.'

Suggested new phrasing:

Frayn's sister later also worked at Harrods, as a children's hairdresser. Rachel at Faber Books (talk) 13:17, 25 July 2023 (UTC)