Looking Back
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Bad John
- A Lifelong Satirist of Prigs and Puritans
- VOLUME I: A Better Class of Person 1929–1956
- VOLUME II: Almost a Gentleman 1955–1966
- Envoi
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
