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5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, fabulous, frisky
A great personal view of the 20th century by a master of words and images
Published 19 months ago by Stephen Silha
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My lovingly called into being, exquisitely proportioned review of this for amazon.co.uk seems to have vanished into the ether, so I'll roll out Take #2 your side of the pond. I venture to aver that (US: I guess) nothing human is alien to me* (except sport, apart from Wimbledon Fortnight - maybe) but this comes across as slightly TOO camp. The Gilded Age is...
Published 12 months ago by Simon G. Barrett
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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A great personal view of the 20th century by a master of words and images
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3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Coming Unbuttoned (Paperback)
My lovingly called into being, exquisitely proportioned review of this for amazon.co.uk seems to have vanished into the ether, so I'll roll out Take #2 your side of the pond.
I venture to aver that (US: I guess) nothing human is alien to me* (except sport, apart from Wimbledon Fortnight - maybe) but this comes across as slightly TOO camp. The Gilded Age is always fascinating, and our hero certainly made the most of his good looks and slender talent (poet and film-maker), but in the end one is just waiting for Cocteau, Gide or Gertude Stein to show up and it starts to feel faintly like Frank Harris. This isn't to put down our Jim; Harris was as odious a braggart and bounder as you could hope to meet - but that's what makes him so damn readable! Now print that, Amazon. PS I remember now using the word 'soiled' about the experience of reading Harris. Broughton is much more hygienic! I guess they're both of their age. [Reader advisory: Harris is not gay, of course - more's the pity!] PPS Since Broughton was a bit of a hanger-on, maybe I should have titled this Camp Follower? *Montaigne, after Terence |
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Coming Unbuttoned by James Richard Broughton (Paperback - Sept. 1993)
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