The Orton Diaries - Couverture rigide

Orton, Joe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0413496600 ISBN 13 : 9780413496607

Editeur : Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

The Orton Diaries

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

”To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature.” When Joe Orton (1933 1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious Entertaining Mr. Sloane and the farce hit Loot, and was completing What the Butler Saw; but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Orton's skull with a hammer before killing himself. The Orton Diaries, written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid style his outrageously unfettered life: his literary success, capped by an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles; his sexual escapades at his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers; and the breakdown of his sixteen-year "marriage" to Halliwell, the relationship that transformed and destroyed him. Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, The Orton Diaries is his crowning achievement.

Biographie de l'auteur

The plays of Joe Orton (1933–1967)—Loot, What the Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, and others—rank with Oscar Wilde's as some of the most outrageous and hilarious of our time. He was brutally murdered by his male lover at the peak of his career.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0413496600
• ISBN 13: 9780413496607
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Lahr John
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