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Looking Back

Looking Back

by JohnOsborne (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $17.92
Synopsis

e single-volume edition of Osborne's two autobiographical works, A Better Class of Person: 1929-1956 and Almost a Gentleman: 1955-1966. The book also contains a review of the former by Alan Bennett entitled Bad John, and David Hare's eulogy delivered at Osborne's memorial service in 1995.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 624
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 18 Mar 2004
ISBN 10: 0571196497
ISBN 13: 9780571196494
Book Overview: Looking Back by John Osborne gathers the autobiographical writing - A Better Class of Person and Almost a Gentleman - of the enormously important playwright behind Look Back in Anger.

Author Bio
John Osborne was born in London in 1929. Before becoming a playwright he worked as a journalist, assistant stage manager and repertory theatre actor. Seeing an advertisement for new plays in The Stage in 1956, Osborne submitted Look Back in Anger. Not only was the play produced, but it was to become considered as the turning point in post-war British theatre. Osborne's protagonist, Jimmy Porter, captured the rebelliousness of an entire post-war generation of 'angry young men'. His other plays include The Entertainer (1957), Luther (1961), Inadmissible Evidence (1964), and A Patriot for Me (1966). He also wrote two volumes of autobiography, A Better Class of Person (1981) and Almost a Gentleman (1991) published together as Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise. His last play, Deja Vu (1991), returns to the characters of Look Back in Anger, over thirty years later. Both Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer were adapted for film, and in 1963 Osborne won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Tom Jones. John Osborne died on 24 December 1994.