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A hard cover edition with dark grey boards, red metallic lettering and unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. There is some foxing and toning throughout but the text, black and white photo, drawings and colour photos are clear and legible. Signed by the Author on the inside front page. Dedication on the inside front board. There is some rubbing to the edges of the book and dust cover. Now in a clear, removable cover to protect from damage.
Publisher: Viking.
Publication Date: 2002.
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Described by Barry Humphries as a ‘cubist self-portrait’, My Life as Me revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his complicated relationship with Australia, and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this heady memoir, his various distractions – painting, travel, collecting, marriage and divorce – are explored, if not explained.
A master of comic writing, Barry tells us of his privileged youth in suburban Melbourne and, with a disarming candour that he already regrets, describes his hectic artistic and romantic career in Australia, England and America. There are also hilarious glimpses of his life as the creator of Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone, Dame Edna Everage – and himself.
About the Author
Barry Humphries, sometimes known as Dame Edna Everage, is the author of several books and many plays. More Please, his first autobiographical work, won the J.R. Ackerley Prize in 1993 and was described by Auberon Waugh as ‘an extraordinary cocktail of a book . . . a literary masterpiece’, and as ‘marvellously funny’ by Sir Alec Guinness. Since his success on the Broadway stage in 1999, Barry Humphries has been in perpetual motion performing throughout the United States.
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