{"product_id":"0306807335","title":"The Orton Diaries","description":"\n\u003cp\u003e”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\u003e is his crowning achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReference\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting, Research \u0026amp; Publishing Guides\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003ePlay \u0026amp; Scriptwriting\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":49258266132670,"sku":"0306807335-4","price":5.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/612e19rkmcL.jpg?v=1754079473","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0306807335","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}