Looking Back

By: John Osborne

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Paperback | 18 March 2004 | Edition Number 1

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When John Osborne died at Christmas 1994, his obituaries cited his autobiographical writings as perfect examples of undiluted talent and acerbic wit. Now, Osborne''s superb autobiographies, A Better Class of Person: 1929-1956 and Almost a Gentleman: 1955-1966 (winner of the J. R. Ackerley Prize), are available for the first time in one volume, Looking Back.

''A brilliant, funny, melancholy and acrimonious book of memoirs . . . Almost every page confirms that his powers as an elegist, definer of the Zeitgeist and master of unforgiving disgust remain undimmed.'' Observer

This volume also contains ''Bad John'', a review by Alan Bennett of A Better Class of Person, and David Hare''s eulogy for John Osborne at the memorial service for Osborne in 1995.

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Besides being one of the best playwrights of his generation, whose work provoked both high acclaim and loud derision, Osborne, who died in 1994, was also a brilliant autobiographer. His talent for dramatization was given plenty of scope in his own life, which featured five marriages and numerous affairs besides his theatrical activity. His two autobiographies, A Better Class of Person: 1929-1956 and Almost A Gentleman: 1955-1966, are collected here in one volume. Funny, bitter, acerbic, melancholy and painfully honest, the life of this most passionate of Englishmen is brilliantly entertaining. (Kirkus UK)

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