Look Back In Anger
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the cramped, suffocating confines of a Midlands bedsit, Look Back in Anger unleashes Jimmy Porter — one of British theatre's most explosive and unforgettable protagonists — upon the world, his volcanic resentment and razor-sharp wit tearing through the polite facades of post-war English society. John Osborne's landmark 1956 play chronicles the turbulent marriage between the working-class Jimmy and his upper-middle-class wife Alison, a relationship defined by passionate cruelty, class antagonism, and a desperate hunger for meaning in an age that has left its young men without purpose or glory. A seismic moment in twentieth-century drama, Look Back in Anger single-handedly ignited the Angry Young Men movement and irrevocably transformed the British stage, sweeping away the drawing-room comedies of the post-war era and replacing them with raw, confrontational realism. Osborne's dialogue crackles with savage intelligence, and his portrayal of frustrated idealism — of a generation caught between a vanished empire and an uncertain future — resonates with a haunting universality that has never dimmed. Will Jimmy Porter's rage ultimately consume everything he loves, or does it mask a grief too profound to name?
Author: John Osborne
Format: Paperback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the cramped, suffocating confines of a Midlands bedsit, Look Back in Anger unleashes Jimmy Porter — one of British theatre's most explosive and unforgettable protagonists — upon the world, his volcanic resentment and razor-sharp wit tearing through the polite facades of post-war English society. John Osborne's landmark 1956 play chronicles the turbulent marriage between the working-class Jimmy and his upper-middle-class wife Alison, a relationship defined by passionate cruelty, class antagonism, and a desperate hunger for meaning in an age that has left its young men without purpose or glory. A seismic moment in twentieth-century drama, Look Back in Anger single-handedly ignited the Angry Young Men movement and irrevocably transformed the British stage, sweeping away the drawing-room comedies of the post-war era and replacing them with raw, confrontational realism. Osborne's dialogue crackles with savage intelligence, and his portrayal of frustrated idealism — of a generation caught between a vanished empire and an uncertain future — resonates with a haunting universality that has never dimmed. Will Jimmy Porter's rage ultimately consume everything he loves, or does it mask a grief too profound to name?