Autor: Lahr, John (Hg.) Titel: The Orton Diaries Verlag: Da Capo Press Ort: New York Jahr: 1996 Auflage: 1. Signatur: L 018 Links:   Reihe/Untertitel:   Genre: Tagebücher Erstauflage: 1986 dt. Erstaufl.:   ISBN: 0 306 80733 5 Bemerkungen: including the correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and others Originaltitel:   Verlagsangaben: "Te be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, camparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature." When Joe Orton (1933 - 1967) wrote these words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwrighter 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. "The Orton Diaries", written during his last eight months, chronicle i an 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, extensevely, in Tangiers; and the breakdown of his sixteen-year "marriage" to Halliwell, the relationship that transformed and destroyed him. Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr. Angaben zu Autorin/Autor: "New Yorker" theater critic John Lahr is the author of fifteen books, including the Orton biography "Prick Up Your Ears" Rezensionen: