PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
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.
So enormous is the personality of Dame Edna Everage, that it comes as something of a shock that she is inhabited by a recognizable if remarkable human being. Barry Humphries, the sole begetter, is not only human but is a polymath and has written a fine autobiography. At times it reads like a rather conventional showbiz memoir but as befits the author of that other legend (in comic strip and on film) Barry McKenzie it is full of felicitous phrasing. Humphries was born in 1934 and Dame Edna made her first appearance on stage in Melbourne in 1956, but he has done much besides, not least and rather surprisingly appearing in the original London and Broadway casts of the musical Oliver. He also found himself an alcoholic, an experience he writes about with great sensitivity. Fascinating and candid. (Kirkus UK)
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