The Orton Diaries [Audiobook] download free by Joe Orton
- Listen audiobook: The Orton Diaries
- Author: Joe Orton
- Release date: 1996/2/7
- Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780306807336
- Rating: 9.26 of 10
- Votes: 875
- Review by: Kortney Grace
- Review rating: 9.56 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/8
- Duration: 3H47M19S in 256 kbps (62 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, Shorten, MP3, MPEG4, WAV, WMA, Vorbis, MPEG-4 ALS (compression TAR, DMG, RAR, CHM, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 310
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M44S (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: '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 in Orton's skull with a hammer before killing himself. The 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. Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, The Orton Diaries is his crowning achievement.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Arts & Entertainment, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Biography: General, Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights, Theatre Studies
- Download servers: FreakShare, FileServe, 4Shared, FileCupid, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA, Google Drive, MyUpload. Compressed in TAR, DMG, RAR, CHM, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.99 USD
- Dimensions: 142x214x20mm
- Weight: 439.98g
- Printed by: Da Capo Press Inc
- Published in: New York, NY, United Kingdom
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