John Lahr reconstructs the life and death of Joe Orton in another extraordinary biography that was chosen Book of the Year by the Truman Capote and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White when it first appeared in 1978

'As good as literary biography gets.'

New York Times Book Review

'Sensationally exciting.'

Newsweek

'An important and illuminating book...Lahr writes beautifully.'

David Mamet, Chicago Tribune

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