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Based on Osborne's intimate journals and letters, a definitive portrait of rebel, playwright, and original Angry Young Man John Osborne describes his youth, his brief journalism career, his work in the theater, and his turbulent personal life, offering a revealing study of his lifelong battle with depression, as well as a critical analysis of his contributions to twentieth-century theater. 15,000 first printing.
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"Engrossing...entertaining and deeply affecting, a remembrance of a time when theatre in Britain actually mattered." -- Sunday Herald: Alan Taylor
"Heilpern is sharp, gossipy and good fun, and he honours the best of Osborne without disguising the worst." -- Guardian: Blake Morison
"The subject is there, warts and all: the charm and laughter as well as the drunken boorishness." -- The Economist
"[Heilpern] writes with infectious verve... His book brings a flesh-and-blood human being back from the shades" -- John Carey, The Sunday Times
"a rip-roaring account of early struggles, huge triumphs, fraught marriages, friends and lovers abused... and, finally, health and talent evaporated." -- Jane Edwardes, Time Out
"a sensationally enjoyable piece of work" -- Saturday Telegraph rvd by Duncan Fallowell
"an enjoyable, exhaustive, well-researched and highly readable biography" -- Independent, Michael Arditti
"an unforgettable portrait" -- The Scotsman rvd by Joyce McMillan
"fascinating...exhaustive perusal of the playwright’s formative years" -- Beryl Bainbridge in The Oldie
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"Heilpern is sharp, gossipy and good fun, and he honours the best of Osborne without disguising the worst." -- Guardian: Blake Morison
"The subject is there, warts and all: the charm and laughter as well as the drunken boorishness." -- The Economist
"[Heilpern] writes with infectious verve... His book brings a flesh-and-blood human being back from the shades" -- John Carey, The Sunday Times
"a rip-roaring account of early struggles, huge triumphs, fraught marriages, friends and lovers abused... and, finally, health and talent evaporated." -- Jane Edwardes, Time Out
"a sensationally enjoyable piece of work" -- Saturday Telegraph rvd by Duncan Fallowell
"an enjoyable, exhaustive, well-researched and highly readable biography" -- Independent, Michael Arditti
"an unforgettable portrait" -- The Scotsman rvd by Joyce McMillan
"fascinating...exhaustive perusal of the playwright’s formative years" -- Beryl Bainbridge in The Oldie
Compelling, groundbreaking and full of startling revelations, a dazzling, definitive biography of the man who changed the face of British theatre, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first performance of Look Back in Anger in May 1956.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0375403159
- ISBN 13 9780375403156
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages544
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