Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Burton and Taylor across six hundred pages of drinking, jewels and films, written by a man who is plainly enjoying himself far too much to stop.
Six hundred pages on the most watched couple of their era, written with more energy than discipline and closer to sustained performance than to biography. Lewis is scabrous, digressive and frequently very funny, and the accumulation of detail about the drinking, the jewels and the films eventually becomes an argument about celebrity itself.
Recommended by 1 Person
Tyler Cowen
An amazing book, full of life and energy on every page, and yes there are 605 of them. Imagine if Camille Paglia had stuck with it and produced case studies.
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