Head to toe : a novel ; & Up against it : a screenplay for the Beatles
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Head to toe : a novel ; & Up against it : a screenplay for the Beatles
Da Capo Press, 1998
1st Da Capo Press ed
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Head to toe & Up against it
Head to toe : a novel ; Up against it : a screenplay for the Beatles
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Here, together for the first time in one volume, are Joe Orton's earliest and last published works. Head to Toe is the saga of Gombold, who strays onto the head of a creature some hundred miles high and begins making his way through the giant's nether regions and on toward his toes. En route, he falls into the clutches of a dominating and gender-bending policewoman; finds himself in an assassination squad whose target is the prime minister; and finally enlists in an apocalyptic war between the Left and Right Buttocks. Up Against It is a screenplay commissioned by the Beatles in 1967, in which, as Orton described it, "The boys have been caught in flagrante , become involved in dubious political activity, dressed as women, committed murder, been put in prison, and committed adultery. " The two works, which mirror each other in many ways, combine elements of satire, eroticism, and nightmare with Orton's characteristic glee.
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