My Life As me: A Memoir - Hardcover

Humphries, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718145410 ISBN 13: 9780718145415

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2002

Synopsis

'When I was nine, my mother gave all my books to the Salvation Army. I was distraught. "But you've read them, Barry," laughed my mother as if it were the height of self-indulgence to retain books after a first perusal. "I hope you're not going togrow up to be a selfish little boy." Sadly, I did.'

Here begins Barry's new book and also a lifelong struggle against occasional savage bouts of bibliomania. Elegant, wistful, utterly readable and memorably funny MY LIFE AS ME once again shows us that his career as a performer has been a mere preliminary before he fulfils his true vocation as one of the great writers of our time.

About this title

Synopsis:

Described by Barry Humphries as a "cubist self-portrait", this autobiography revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this memoir, his various fascinations are explored: painting, travel, marriage and divorce, and his friendships with comedians, artists and writers such as Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and many others. A master of comic writing, he tells us of his pivileged youth in suburban Melbourne. With a disarming candour that he already regrets, he describes his hectic artistic and romantic career in Australia, England and America and he shares with us hilarious behind-the-scenes details of this life as creator and personal manager of Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and Dame Edna Everage.

About the Author:

Barry Humphries, sometimes known as Dame Edna Everage, is the author of several autobiographies, and plays. MORE PLEASE, his first autobiographical foray, won the JR Ackerley prize in 1993 and unparalleled praise. He is married to Lizzie Spender, the daughter of British poet Sir Stephen Spender, and has two sons and two daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0718145410
• ISBN 13: 9780718145415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384