{"product_id":"the-orton-diaries","title":"Joe Orton: The Orton Diaries [1996] paperback","description":"\"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich  and  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  Entertaining Mr. Sloane  and the farce hit  Loot , and was completing  What the Butler Saw  but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Orton's skull with a hammer before killing himself.  The Orton Diaries , written during his 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 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,  The Orton Diaries  is his crowning achievement.","brand":"Orton, Joe","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47410795610451,"sku":"XV80306807336","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":49374917001555,"sku":"9780306807336","price":24.27,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/orton-joe-joe-orton-the-orton-diaries-1996-paperback-58801717444947.jpg?v=1727153762","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/the-orton-diaries","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}