The Orton Diaries

by Joe Orton

Overview

The Orton Diaries, written during Joe Orton's 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413777249
Publisher:	Methuen Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	10/28/2011

About the Author

The plays of Joe Orton (1933–1967)—Loot, What the Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, and others—rank with Oscar Wilde's as some of the most outrageous and hilarious of our time. He was brutally murdered by his male lover at the peak of his career.