An edition of Head to Toe & Up Against It (1971)

Head to Toe & Up Against It

1st Da Capo Press ed.
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An edition of Head to Toe & Up Against It (1971)

Head to Toe & Up Against It

1st Da Capo Press ed.
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Here, together for the first time in one volume, are Joe Orton's earliest and last published works. Head to Toe is the saga of Gombold, who strays onto the head of a creature some hundred miles high and begins making his way through the giant's nether regions and on toward his toes. En route, he falls into the clutches of a dominating and gender-bending policewoman; finds himself in an assassination squad whose target is the prime minister; and finally enlists in an apocalyptic war between the Left and Right Buttocks. Up Against It is a screenplay commissioned by the Beatles in 1967, in which, as Orton described it, "The boys have been caught in flagrante, become involved in dubious political activity, dressed as women, committed murder, been put in prison, and committed adultery." The two works, which mirror each other in many ways, combine elements of satire, eroticism, and nightmare with Orton's characteristic glee

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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Language
English
Pages
186

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Cover of: Head to Toe & Up Against It
Head to Toe & Up Against It
2001, Methuen Paperbacks Ltd
Cover of: Head to Toe & Up Against It
Head to Toe & Up Against It
1998, Da Capo Press
in English - 1st Da Capo Press ed.
Cover of: Head to toe
Head to toe
1986, St. Martin's Press
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: Head to toe
Head to toe
1971, Blond
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Head to toe ; and Up against it, Up against it.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6065.R7 H4 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
186 p., xvi, 70 p. ;
Number of pages
186

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL692560M
Internet Archive
headtotoeupagain00orto
ISBN 10
0306808366
ISBN 13
9780306808364
LCCN
97039767
Library Thing
558685
Goodreads
228625

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