Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Author(s): Roger Lewis
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.
Product Information
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.
General Fields
- :
- : Quercus Books
- : riverrun
- : 0.3
- : 30 December 2023
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : 01 February 2024
- : books
Special Fields
- : Roger Lewis
- : Paperback
- : 320
- : 8-page b&w section