Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor by Roger L

Description: Erotic Vagrancy by Roger Lewis The comic genius of English writing takes on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last centurys ultimate glamour couple: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf. Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other. Notes The story of an age of excess, taking on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last centurys ultimate glamour couple, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. From the author of Seasonal Suicide Notes. Author Biography Roger Lewis has achieved considerable word-of-mouth success with Seasonal Suicide Notes. He has also written a biography of Anthony Burgess, and Sunday Times best-selling books on Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and the Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey. Review Thirteen years in the writing, Erotic Vagrancy doesnt only surpass every other biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton yet to appear, this rich and articulate book is also about celebrity, creativity, being flawed and being brilliant. * Belfast Telegraph *It is one of the very best biographies I have ever read. One of the best books about fame, desire, Hollywood and mid-to-late twentieth-century culture ever written. Inside which, brilliant, hilarious and sensitive insights on allmanner of subject fizz and froth. Magnificent, terrible, tragic, triumphant. -- Stephen FryLewis prose, so electrifying, so funny, so sharp, so unsolemn, always going in unexpected directions, and with all those hilarious asides. Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy * Craig Brown *A hot thunderstorm of a book * David Hare *Unputdownable -- Tony PalmerFascinating and hilarious . . . The joy is in the writing and the writing is joyful . . . The boldness of Lewiss writing is perfectly suited to the charisma of his subjects. -- Hadley Freeman * Sunday Times *As extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars. * Observer *Lewiss magnum opus is a masterpiece in a genre of his own invention. * The Times *He is a genius writer . . . - brilliant, witty, exhilarating, and a fund of good stories. * The Telegraph *A wonderful book . . . so deliciously written . . . Erotic Vagrancy is the biography of the year. Correction. Its the book of the year and then some * Mail on Sunday *A dionysiac humdinger. * Spectator (Duncan Fallowell Book of the Year) *The battling Burtons Liz Taylor and Richard Burton were the most glamorous celebrity couple ever. Passionately devoted to each other, the high life and - fatally - the bottle, this fascinating account of their love affair is gripping stuff. * New Statesman *Stupendous book * Scotsman *This eccentric, baroque and often funny book, full of riffs, asides and venom, is a study of megastardom, excess and monstrous personalities. * Robbie Millen, The Times *Tantalising * Sunday Independent *Excellent . . . Lewis has managed to create something bigger and more extravagant than a biography . . . Erotic Vagrancy manages to be both beautiful and ugly, romantic and putrid, which befits Burton and Taylor, their love, their style, their era which is long gone. * Sight and Sound *Glitters like one of Taylors rubies * Sunday Times *Bold, bitchy and bloody-minded. It is their masterpiece. * Sight and Sound *I started it on Friday and basically havent done anything else but read it since, including over dinner last night. It is crazily good, hugely clever, monstrously opinionated, full of epic tangents, often mean (my God, so mean), completely gossipy, wildly, hilariously funny - like, put it down while you catch your breath funny - and brilliantly written. -- India Knight * Home *Lewis is a brilliant writer; his acute eye for rich and fascinating detail is on open and shameless display here. -- Colm Toibin * Guardian *Ive never read anything like it! Roger Lewiss analysis, theories, cross referencing, flights of fancy and encyclopaedic detail, are nirvana for this detail obsessed reader! -- Richard E GrantThe best book on movie stardom full stop. A masterpiece of insight and imagination against which all future biographies of anyone and everyone shall be found wanting. * The Critic *Few biographies have been written with this level of intelligence and beauty.. * The Film Stage *My book (and title) of the year. A magnificent, compendious and fantastically readable account of the phenomenon that was Taylor-Burton. It manages to be hilarious and at the same time deeply insightful and understanding. What emerges is a truthful and scintillating picture of the couple and their astonishing impact on each other and on the world around them. What makes the experience of reading Erotic Vagrancy so matchless is that Lewis writes, word on word, sentence on sentence, better than any biographer alive. -- Stephen Fry[Erotic Vagrancy is] huge and compendious but so stunningly well-written and filled with such eye-popping and extraordinary details, accompanied by such penetrating and hilarious asides ... well, Ive taken longer to read some novellas -- Stephen Fry * The Observer (Books of the Year 2024) *Within its 600 pages is everything you could conceivable want to know about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, including, but not limited to, Elizabeths favourite sexual position, the only meal Richard Burton cooked during their marriage and the weekly rent of their dogs yacht ... But bizarre trivia aside, Erotic Vagrancy gains its power from Roger Lewiss joyful writing * Sunday Times (Books of the Year 2024) * Long Description Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf. Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other. Promotional "Headline" The comic genius of English writing takes on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last centurys ultimate glamour couple: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Details ISBN0857381725 Author Roger Lewis ISBN-10 0857381725 ISBN-13 9780857381729 Media Book Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 791.430280922 Illustrations 8-page b&w section Publisher Quercus Publishing Format Hardcover Imprint riverrun Subtitle Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor UK Release Date 2023-10-26 Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-10-26 Audience General NZ Release Date 2024-01-29 AU Release Date 2024-01-29 Pages 656 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159133307;

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