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 FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The book of the year SUNDAY TIMESOne of the very best biographies I have ever read STEPHEN FRYA hot thunderstorm of a book DAVID HAREIve never read anything like it! RICHARD E GRANT Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy CRAIG BROWNUnputdownable TONY PALMERA genius writer LYNN BARBERABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE . . . ONE OF THE GREAT READING EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE MARINA HYDEA TOP 25 BEST BOOK OF 2023 (INDEPENDENT)AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThirteen years in the writing, Erotic Vagrancy doesnt only surpass every other biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton yet to appear, this rich, vital and passionately articulated book, which is as extravagant and wayward as its two subjects, is also about celebrity, creativity, being flawed, being brilliant, sexuality, the intermingling of a low and a highbrow existence, pride, insecurity, attraction and repulsion, and devilry.We see Taylor the child actress exchanging dogs and horses for husbands. We see Burton emerging from the mists and brimstone of Wales to be the greatest theatrical animal of his generation. The pair come together in Rome during the making of Cleopatra, which gives Lewis the opportunity for a major farcical set-piece. We then enter a world of jewels and private jets, vodka, yachts and furs - the splendid vulgarity of the Sixties, where the narrative of Taylor and Burton becomes a Pop Art story.Then, inevitably, it all goes wrong, with alcoholism, violence, recrimination and divorce ( twice ) - with Burton, whom Lewis depicts as a Faustus figure, damned by fame, dead at fifty-eight.Stephen Fry has said, 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 all manner of subjects fizz and froth. Magnificent, terrible, tragic, triumphant. 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) * Details ISBN0857381741 Author Roger Lewis Publisher Quercus Publishing Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780857381743 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-07-04 Imprint riverrun Subtitle Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 791.430280922 Audience General UK Release Date 2024-07-04 Pages 656 ISBN-10 0857381741 NZ Release Date 2024-08-26 AU Release Date 2024-08-26 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:169077344;

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