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John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man

John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man

Heilpern, John

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsLiterary FiguresPlaywriting

ISBN10: 0375702954
ISBN13: 9780375702952
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jan 8 2008
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biography-the first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression-reveals the notorious rebel in all his heartrending complexity.

Through a working-class childhood and five marriages, Osborne led a tumultuous life. An impossible father, he threw his teenage daughter out of the house and never spoke to her again. His last written words were I have sinned. Theater critic John Heilpern's detailed portrait, including interviews with Osborne's daughter, scores of friends and enemies, and his alleged male lover, shows us a contradictory genius-an ogre with charm, a radical who hated change, and above all, a defiant individualist.

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