John Osborne: A Patriot for Us
by John Heilpern
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0701167807
- ISBN 13
- 9780701167806
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Hereford, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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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
- The Guru Bookshop Ltd, Green Warehouse (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000130540
- Title
- John Osborne: A Patriot for Us
- Author
- John Heilpern
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0701167807
- ISBN 13
- 9780701167806
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006-05-04
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- Size
- 5.2030 cent in x 23.7817 cent in x 15.5838 cent in
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