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 stage.
In this heady memoir, his various fascinations - painting, travel, collecting, marriage and divorce - are explored, as are his friendships with comedians, artists and writers such as Spike Milligan, 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.
