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Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton
 
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Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton (Paperback)

by John Lahr (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; 1st California Pbk. Ed edition (30 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0520226666
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520226661
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,262,130 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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John Lahr - New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer of his father Bert Lahr ("Notes on a Cowardly Lion") - reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton in another extraordinary biography that was chosen Book of the Year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White when it first appeared in 1978. 'I have high hopes of dying in my prime,' Joe Orton confided to his diary in July, 1967. Less than one month later, Britain's most promising comic playwright was murdered by his lover in the London flat they had shared for fifteen years. Lahr chronicles Orton's working-class childhood and stagestruck adolescence, the scandals and disasters of his early professional years, and the brief, glittering success of his blistering comedies, "Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot", and "What the Butler Saw". "Prick Up Your Ears" is a watershed biography; it paved the way for Orton's revival and ensured his rightful place in the English repertoire.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Concise and perceptive, 28 Mar 2001
Joe Orton is now perhaps one of the most famous diarists ever pulished. Despite the fact that the entries cover a period of under a year, they are insightful and entertaining reading. And, in buying Lahr's biography of Orton, what you are getting is basically an analysis of the diaries. This is fine, unless you've read the diaries previously, as much of the words are reprinted to illustrate Lahr's writing. As in insight into Orton's life the biography is only occasionally revealing, with words from his family giving previously unrecorded background to Orton himself. There is something of a clinical atmosphere to the book, however, and Lahr never really tells us anything new or revealing from his own perception of Orton. Read the diaries. Coming from Orton himself, they're a more compelling read, and Lahr's introduction to them is as much as you need to hear from him.
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