My Life as ME A Memoir Author:Barry Humphries From the publisher's blurb: "Described by Barry Humphries as a 'cubist self-portrait', My Life as Me revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia, and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this heady memoir, his various fascinations - painting, travel, collecting, marriage and divorce - are explor... more »ed, as are his friendships with comedians, artists and writers such as Spike Milliagan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and many others.; A master of comic writing, Barry tells us of his privileged youth in suburban Melbourne and, with a disarming candour that he already regrets, describes his hectic artistic and romantic career in Australia, England and America. He also shares with us hilarious behind-the-scenes details of his life as creator and personal manager of Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and Dame Edna Everage."« less