{"product_id":"the-orton-diaries-isbn-9780306807336","title":"The Orton Diaries","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e happy is surely going against nature.\" When Joe Orton (1933-1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious \u003ci\u003eEntertaining Mr. Sloane\u003c\/i\u003e and the farce hit \u003ci\u003eLoot\u003c\/i\u003e, and was completing \u003ci\u003eWhat the Butler Saw;\u003c\/i\u003e but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Orton's skull with a hammer before killing himself. \u003ci\u003eThe Orton Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e, written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid style his outrageously unfettered life: his literary success, capped by an \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard Award\u003c\/i\u003e and overtures from the Beatles; his sexual escapades-at his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers; and the breakdown of his sixteen-year \"marriage\" to Halliwell, the relationship that transformed and destroyed him. Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, \u003ci\u003eThe Orton Diaries \u003c\/i\u003eis his crowning achievement.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891027931365,"sku":"NP9780306807336","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-orton-diaries-isbn-9780306807336","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}