My Life As Me
Author: Humphries, Barry
ISBN: 9780140287455
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Year first published: 03 May 2004
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780140287455
Publisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
Year first published: 03 May 2004
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
