Bild 1 von 18
Galerie
Bild 1 von 18
Ähnlichen Artikel verkaufen?
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton Hardcover Schutzumschlag 2023
US $13,99
Ca.CHF 11,20
Artikelzustand:
Gut
Buch, das gelesen wurde, sich aber in einem guten Zustand befindet. Der Einband weist nur sehr geringfügige Beschädigungen auf, wie z.B. kleinere Schrammen, er hat aber weder Löcher, noch ist er eingerissen. Bei gebundenen Büchern ist der Schutzumschlag möglicherweise nicht mehr vorhanden. Die Bindung weist geringfügige Gebrauchsspuren auf. Die Mehrzahl der Seiten ist unbeschädigt, das heißt, es gibt kaum Knitter oder Einrisse, es wurden nur in geringem Maße Bleistiftunterstreichungen im Text vorgenommen, es gibt keine Textmarkierungen und die Randbereiche sind nicht beschrieben. Alle Seiten sind vollständig vorhanden. Genauere Einzelheiten sowie eine Beschreibung eventueller Mängel entnehmen Sie bitte dem Angebot des Verkäufers.
- Sofort-KaufenErotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton Hardcover Schutzumschlag 2023
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
Versand:
US $5,97 (ca. CHF 4,78) USPS Media MailTM.
Standort: Wilmington, California, USA
Lieferung:
Lieferung zwischen Mi, 3. Sep und Fr, 5. Sep nach 94104 bei heutigem Zahlungseingang
Rücknahme:
30 Tage Rückgabe. Käufer zahlt Rückversand. Wenn Sie ein eBay-Versandetikett verwenden, werden die Kosten dafür von Ihrer Rückerstattung abgezogen.
Zahlungen:
Sicher einkaufen
Der Verkäufer ist für dieses Angebot verantwortlich.
eBay-Artikelnr.:267325516123
Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780857381729
Über dieses Produkt
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Quercus
ISBN-10
0857381725
ISBN-13
9780857381729
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21060629986
Product Key Features
Book Title
Erotic Vagrancy : Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Rich & Famous, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.2 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Erotic Vagrancy by Roger Lewis is a witty and wise account of the lives of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Lewis is a brilliant writer; his acute eye for rich and fascinating detail is on open and shameless display here."-- Colm Toíbín , The Guardian, Thirteen years in the writing, Erotic Vagrancy doesn'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.
Dewey Decimal
791.430280922
Synopsis
Thirteen years in the writing, Erotic Vagrancy doesn't 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.', 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., 'The book of the year' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE ' Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy' CRAIG BROWN 'Unputdownable' TONY PALMER 'A genius writer' LYNN BARBER 'ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE . . . ONE OF THE GREAT READING EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE' MARINA HYDE A TOP 25 BEST BOOK OF 2023 (INDEPENDENT) Thirteen years in the writing, Erotic Vagrancy doesn't 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.'
LC Classification Number
PN1998.2.L4 2023
Artikelbeschreibung des Verkäufers
Info zu diesem Verkäufer
Reyesmas
99,8% positive Bewertungen•8.9 Tsd. Artikel verkauft
Angemeldet als gewerblicher Verkäufer
Verkäuferbewertungen (2'636)
- a***h (108)- Bewertung vom Käufer.Letzter MonatBestätigter KaufExcellent, thank you so much. Just as described, good value, packaged wonderfully, and shipped fast.
- 9***9 (1325)- Bewertung vom Käufer.Letzter MonatBestätigter Kauf👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
- l***1 (1178)- Bewertung vom Käufer.Letzter MonatBestätigter KaufLove it
Noch mehr entdecken:
- Belletristik-Bücher mit Schutzumschlag,
- Bücher Sachbuch Schutzumschlag,
- Schutzumschlag Studium und Erwachsenenbildung,
- Romane Schutzumschlag Belletristik,
- Richard Scarry Belletristik-Bücher,
- Bücher über Bücher Sachbuch Schutzumschlag,
- Deutsche Bücher Sachbuch Schutzumschlag,
- Geschichte Bücher Sachbuch Schutzumschlag,
- Belletristik-Bücher mit Schutzumschlag Thriller,
- Bücher über Film Sachbuch Schutzumschlag