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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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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0701167807
- ISBN 13 9780701167806
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages544
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