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)
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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