This mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton’s brief
and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and
Nobel Prize–winning novelist Patrick White Told with precision
and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing
biography of playwright and novelist Joe Orton. Orton’s public
career spanned only three years (1964–1967), but his work made a
lasting mark on the international stage. From Entertaining Mr.
Sloane to his career-making Loot, Orton’s plays often shocked,
sometimes outraged, and always captivated audiences with their dark
yet farcical cynicism. A rising star and undeniable talent, Orton
left much undone when he was bludgeoned to death by his lover,
Kenneth Halliwell, who had educated Orton and also dreamed of
becoming a famous writer. Â Prick Up Your Ears was the basis
for the distinguished 1987 film of the same name, directed by
Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Alan Bennett, and starring
Gary Oldman and Vanessa Redgrave. A brilliant, page-turning
examination of the dueling forces behind Orton’s work, Prick Up
Your Ears secured the playwright’s reputation as a great
twentieth-century artist.
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