John Osborne: A Patriot for Us
by John Heilpern
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Lightly rubbed at the tips of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.
- ISBN 10
- 0701167807
- ISBN 13
- 9780701167806
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Synopsis
John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biography--the first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression--reveals the notorious rebel in all his heartrending complexity. Through a working-class childhood and five marriages, Osborne led a tumultuous life. An impossible father, he threw his teenage daughter out of the house and never spoke to her again. His last written words were "I have sinned." Theater critic John Heilpern's detailed portrait, including interviews with Osborne's daughter, scores of friends and enemies, and his alleged male lover, shows us a contradictory genius--an ogre with charm, a radical who hated change, and above all, a defiant individualist.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 189240
- Title
- John Osborne: A Patriot for Us
- Author
- John Heilpern
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Lightly rubbed at the tips of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0701167807
- ISBN 13
- 9780701167806
- Publisher
- London: Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- john osborne, dramatists, english biography, plays, playwrights, literary figures, history modern, criticism, drama, performing arts, theater, entertainment arts, books written by john heilpern, 0701167807
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