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100 1 $aOrton, Joe.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79106117
245 14 $aThe Orton diaries :$bincluding the correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and others /$cedited by John Lahr.
250 $a1st Da Capo Press ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDa Capo Press,$c1996.
300 $a304 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
500 $aOriginally published: London : Methuen, 1986.
520 $a"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich, and happy is surely going against nature." When Joe Orton (1933-1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious Entertaining Mr. Sloane and the farce hit Loot, and was completing What the Butler Saw; but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed Orton's skull in with a hammer before killing himself.
520 8 $aThe Orton Diaries, written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid style his outrageously unfettered life: his literary success, capped by an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles; his sexual escapades - at his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers; and the breakdown of his sixteen-year "marriage" to Halliwell, the relationship that transformed and destroyed him.
520 8 $aEdited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, The Orton Diaries is his crowning achievement.
600 10 $aOrton, Joe$vDiaries.
650 0 $aDramatists, English$y20th century$vDiaries.
700 1 $aLahr, John,$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50039413
852 00 $bglx$hPR6065.R7$iZ467 1996