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"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 Orton's skull in 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.
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- Title The Orton Diaries
- Author Joe Orton; John Lahr (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 310
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Da Capo Press, NY
- Date 1996-08-22
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780306807336 / 0306807335
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.93 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.06 x 1.78 cm)
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- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Orton, Joe - Diaries, Dramatists, English - 20th century - Diaries
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96018361
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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