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My Life as Me Barry Humphries

My Life as Me By Barry Humphries

My Life as Me by Barry Humphries


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Summary

Better known as the performer Dame Edna Everage, Barry Humphries here offers anecdotes from his life. The book reveals a selfish streak, a tendency to bibilomania and what is, perhaps, his true vocation: writing.

My Life as Me Summary

My Life as Me: A Memoir by Barry Humphries

Described by Barry Humphries as a cubist self-portrait, this autobiography revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this memoir, his various fascinations are explored: painting, travel, marriage and divorce, and his friendships with comedians, artists and writers such as Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and many others. A master of comic writing, he tells us of his pivileged youth in suburban Melbourne. With a disarming candour that he already regrets, he describes his hectic artistic and romantic career in Australia, England and America and he shares with us hilarious behind-the-scenes details of this life as creator and personal manager of Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and Dame Edna Everage.

About Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries, sometimes known as Dame Edna Everage, is the author of several autobiographies, and plays. MORE PLEASE, his first autobiographical foray, won the JR Ackerley prize in 1993 and unparalleled praise. He is married to Lizzie Spender, the daughter of British poet Sir Stephen Spender, and has two sons and two daughters.

Table of Contents

Sunny Sam; Narooma; turps; sweetcorn and solyptol; nice nights out; dealers and askers; Billo's book; Aaron Azimuth; wonderland; do you know what I mean?; ships in bottles; reasonable access; alone at last; crocodillos; green walls, black sand; hold the blossoms; parnassians; cavities and crowns; notaproblem; dusk.

Additional information

GOR001257029
9780718145415
0718145410
My Life as Me: A Memoir by Barry Humphries
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20021104
384
N/A
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