{"product_id":"erotic-vagrancy-9780857381736","title":"Erotic Vagrancy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pairas the starting point to tellthe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirteen years in the writing,\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003eErotic Vagrancy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003edoesn't 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.\u003c\/b\u003e * Belfast Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is \u003cb\u003eone of the very best \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebiographies I have ever read\u003c\/b\u003e. 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\u003cbr\u003emanner of subject fizz and froth. \u003cb\u003eMagnificent, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eterrible, tragic, triumphant.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Stephen Fry\u003cbr\u003eLewis' prose, so electrifying, so funny, so sharp, so unsolemn, always going in unexpected directions, and with all those hilarious asides.\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eErotic Vagrancy\u003c\/i\u003e gave me a week of pure joy\u003c\/b\u003e * Craig Brown *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hot thunderstorm of a book\u003c\/b\u003e * David Hare *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnputdownable\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tony Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFascinating and      hilarious\u003c\/b\u003e . . . The joy is in the writing and the writing is joyful . . .\u003cb\u003e The boldness      of Lewis's writing is perfectly suited to the charisma of his subjects.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Hadley Freeman * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars.\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLewis's magnum opus is a masterpiece in a genre of his own invention.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe is a genius writer . . . - brilliant, witty, exhilarating, and a fund of good stories.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wonderful book . . . so deliciously written\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eErotic Vagrancy \u003c\/i\u003eis the biography of the year. Correction. \u003cb\u003eIt's the book of the year and then some\u003c\/b\u003e * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dionysiac humdinger.\u003c\/b\u003e * Spectator (Duncan Fallowell Book of the Year) *\u003cbr\u003eThe '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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStupendous book\u003c\/b\u003e * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTantalising \u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Independent *\u003cbr\u003eExcellent . . . Lewis has managed to create something bigger and more extravagant than a biography . . . \u003ci\u003eErotic Vagrancy \u003c\/i\u003emanages to be both beautiful and ugly, romantic and putrid, which befits Burton and Taylor, their love, their style, their era which is long gone\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e * Sight and Sound *","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866084454743,"sku":"9780857381736","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857381736.jpg?v=1722276956","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/erotic-vagrancy-9780857381736","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}