Damn You England: Collected Prose

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'In this hugely enjoyable collection of his prose, his scouring fury blazes anew, delighting, or shocking, depending on the way you feel. This is an assembly of pellucid, elegant, vibrant English you would be foolish to ignore.Here you will find all rage, all tenderness, all wit, plus seething, explosive invective. It is a rollercoaster ride of swooping ups and downs.Rummage about in his brantub.it is stuffed with glorious bits and pieces, all most elegantly wrapped. Just be careful of the sharp pieces. You could get cut.'

John Osborne was born in London in 1929. Before becoming a playwright he worked as a journalist, assistant stage manager and repertory theatre actor. Seeing an advertisement for new plays in The Stage in 1956, Osborne submitted Look Back in Anger. Not only was the play produced, but it was to become considered as the turning point in post-war British theatre. Osborne's protagonist, Jimmy Porter, captured the rebelliousness of an entire post-war generation of 'angry young men'. His other plays include The Entertainer (1957), Luther (1961), Inadmissable Evidence (1964), and A Patriot for Me (1966). He also wrote two volumes of autobiography, A Better Class of Person (1981) and Almost a Gentleman (1991). His last play, Dejavu (1991), returns to the characters of Look Back in Anger, over thirty years later. Both Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer were adapted for film, and in 1963 Osbo