Head to Toe: A Novel & Up Against It: A Screenplay for the Beatles

By John Lahr, Joe Orton, Brando Skyhorse

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306808366
• ISBN13: 9780306808364
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Another little warning....

Not for the kiddies! Some inappropriate material for young'uns. Otherwise very good. Not for reading aloud though.

Head to toe and cover to cover!

Head to toe is the story of Gombold, a man who drops onto the head of Atlas and makes his way to the toes. On the way he is arrested and imprisoned repeatedly, assasinates an official, becomes confused as to his own gender, and finally enlists in the war between the left and right buttocks. There is alot of symbolism and wonderfully amusing word usage. The Washington times called it a bizarre combination of Gulliver's Travels and Alice in Wonderland. Up Against it is a screenplay written for the Beatles. The author, Joe Orton, was murdered in 1967 by his lover at the peak of his career. There are many parallels between the two stories in this book, which were Orton's first and last ever published.