| Edition |
2010
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| Publication |
Noida, Faber and Faber Limited, 2006.
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| Description |
xxxx, 160pBeige Spine
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| Series |
Longman Study Edition
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| Summary/Abstract |
Jimmy Porter plays trumpet badly. He browbeats his flatmate, terrorizes his wife, and is not above sleeping with her best friend, who loathes Jimmy almost as much as he loathes himself. Yet this working-class Hamlet, the original Angry Young Man, is one of the most mesmerizing characters ever to burst onto a stage, a malevolently vital, volcanically articulate internal exile in the dreary, dreaming Siberia of postwar England. First produced in 1956, 'Look Back in Anger' launched a revolution in the English theater.
Savagely, sadly, and always impolitely, it compels readers and audiences to acknowledge the hidden currents of rottenness and rage in what used to be called "the good life."
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| Standard Number |
9780571235582 Pb.
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