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The Orton Diaries By Joe Orton (Paperback, 2011)

From December 1966 until his murder in August 1967 Joe Orton kept a series of diaries which are one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era The diaries chronicle frankly and hilariously the literary successes (capped with an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles) the rejection of all conventions and the astonishing sexual adventures (at his mother's funeralwith a dwarf in Brighton) of a true literary iconoclast who believed there was no sense in being a rebel without applause
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From December 1966 until his murder in August 1967 Joe Orton kept a series of diaries which are one of the most candid & unfettered accounts of that remarkable era The diaries chronicle frankly & hilariously the literary successes (capped with an Evening Standard Award & overtures from the Beatles) the rejection of all conventions & the astonishing sexual adventures (at his mother's funeralwith a dwarf in Brighton) of a true literary iconoclast who believed there was no sense in being a rebel without applause

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