My Life as Me: A Memoir. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.My Life as Me: A Memoir

'When I was nine, my mother gave all my books to the Salvation Army. I was distraught. "But you've read them, Barry," laughed my mother as if it were the height of self-indulgence to retain books after a first perusal. "I hope you're not going togrow up to be a selfish little boy." Sadly, I did.'

Here begins Barry's new book and also a lifelong struggle against occasional savage bouts of bibliomania. Elegant, wistful, utterly readable and memorably funny MY LIFE AS ME once again shows us that his career as a performer has been a mere preliminary before he fulfils his true vocation as one of the great writers of our time.

Barry Humphries, sometimes known as Dame Edna Everage, is the author of several autobiographies, and plays. MORE PLEASE, his first autobiographical foray, won the JR Ackerley prize in 1993 and unparalleled praise. He is married to Lizzie Spender, the daughter of British poet Sir Stephen Spender, and has two sons and two daughters.