My Life As Me
A Memoir
$26.51
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
3 May 2004
Summary
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 regr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140287455 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140287450 |
| Author: | Barry Humphries |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 392g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 131mm x 31mm |
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About The Author
Barry Humphries
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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