{"product_id":"the-orton-diaries-joe-orton-9780306807336","title":"The Orton Diaries","description":"\"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEntertaining Mr. Sloane\u003c\/i\u003e and the farce hit \u003ci\u003eLoot\u003c\/i\u003e, and was completing \u003ci\u003eWhat the Butler Saw;\u003c\/i\u003e but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Orton's skull with a hammer before killing himself. \u003ci\u003eThe Orton Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e, written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid style his outrageously unfettered life: his literary success, capped by an \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard Award\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Orton Diaries \u003c\/i\u003eis his crowning achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Orton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0306807335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780306807336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Da Capo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.93w x 0.70d","brand":"Joe Orton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046962327807,"sku":"9780306807336","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a623f2e5-e547-4688-a515-63e5e5b4cff3.jpg?v=1684987491","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-orton-diaries-joe-orton-9780306807336","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}