John Osborne

John Osborne A Patriot for Us

Paperback (07 Jun 2007)

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Publisher's Synopsis

John Osborne (1929-1994), unapologetic rebel and original Angry Young Man, changed the face of modern British theatre forever with Look Back in Anger. An actor turned playwright, Osborne was married five times, his private life generating a tumult and drama to match that of his work.

This startlightly candid, authorised but intimate and informal biography is the first to have access to Osborne's own notebooks and private letters, which record for posterity his often anguished nature. It includes personal interviews with scores of his friends and enemies, among them a bombshell of a confession from Osborne's alleged male lover, and the first public comments from his estranged daughter Nolan, who was thrown out of the family home at just sixteen.

This is an essential, unorthodox, moving and extraordinarily frank portrait of the man, the playwright and his era.

About the Publisher

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099275862
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 822.914
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 528
Weight: 408g
Height: 201mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 38mm