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The Boy Hairdresser (Hardcover)

by Joe Orton (Author), Kenneth Halliwell (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books; First Edition edition (25 Jun 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1854594141
  • ISBN-13: 978-1854594143
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 929,396 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Two novels marking the beginning and the end of the seven-year-long writing partnership of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell. "Lord Cucumber" is a camp pastiche of a Mills and Boon romance, and "The Boy Hairdresser" tells of the tortured relationship of two rootless young men.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Scary portent of the future - for Joe and Kenneth, 11 Dec 2005
By Mr. P. Toni "Mr Sloan" (Wolverhampton) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lord Cucumber and The Boy Hairdresser (Paperback)
In real life Orton was killed by Halliwell, then Halliwell killed himself.

In the book they co-wrote more than a decade earlier, there are some chilling sentences:

Some say Donelly in the book was really Halliwell...

"With remarkable veracity he saw all the dreary squalor which must one day be ended. If Peterson were dead, he (Donelly) could end it now"

"one day he would show them, he could afford to wait"

"Donelly watched the grin on his face, and saw, as though reflected in glass, the final situation from which he would be unable to squirm"

"I'll stick to you like glue, I'm not an easy habit to break"

Was Halliwell already contemplating killing Orton in 1956? Was the book a lesson about the future Joe should have heeded?

As a peice of forensic phycology it is fascinating.

On a literary level, you read this and realise Orton would have written some truly fantastic novels had he lived.
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