JOHN OSBORNE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and
transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in
Anger. This startling biography–the first to draw on the secret
notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression–reveals
the notorious rebel in all his heartrending complexity.
　　Through a working-class childhood and five marriages, Osborne led
a tumultuous life. An impossible father, he threw his teenage
daughter out of the house and never spoke to her again. His last
written words were “I have sinned.” Theater critic John Heilpern’s
detailed portrait, including interviews with Osborne’s daughter,
scores of friends and enemies, and his alleged male lover, shows us
a contradictory genius–an ogre with charm, a radical who hated
change, and above all, a defiant individualist.

　　John Heilpern is the author of the classic book about theater
Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa
and of How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?, a collection of his
theater essays and reviews. Born in England and educated at Oxford,
his interviews for The Observer (London) received a British
Press Award. In 1980 he moved to New York, where he became a weekly
columnist for The Times of London. An adjunct professor of
drama at Columbia University, he is drama critic for the New
York Observer.

　　“Miraculous. . . . A model of what a literary biography ought
to be. . . . The Osborne who emerges from these pages is a
character of almost Shakespearean dimensions, grand as Falstaff,
volatile as Hamlet, mad as Lear.” —The Philadelphia
Inquirer“A terrific story. . . . An appealing, rollicking
portrait. . . . The best literary biography I have read in a long
time.” —Harold Evans, The Wall Street Journal“I cannot
recall a biography that was so amusing and intense. . . . If there
is going to be a better-written, more entertaining, or more sharply
observed performance this year, I’ll be mighty surprised.” —Carl
Rollyson, The New York Sun