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Dearest Squirrel...' : The Intimate Letters of John Osborne and Pamela Lane
Overview
A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UK's greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actress Pamela Lane, are also a love letter to a now defunct system of repertory theatre, and life in post-war Britain.
As these letters reveal, soon after their divorce, Osborne and Lane began a mutually supportive, loyal, frequently stormy and sometimes sexually intimate alliance lasting thirty years until Osborne's death. By the mid-1980s, they had become closer and more trusting than they had been since their earliest years together. 'You are for me what you always were, ' Pamela told him, 'I am in love with you still.' It is, he declared, 'my fortune to have loved someone for a lifetime.' Acerbic, witty, candid and heartbreaking, they reveal a unique relationship, troubled, tender and enduring.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9781786823922
- ISBN-10: 1786823926
- Publisher: Oberon Books
- Publish Date: July 2018
- Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 416
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