Erotic Vagrancy

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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Lewis, Lewis Roger
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2023
• EAN: 9780857381729
• ISBN: 978-0-85738-172-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 236 mm x 56 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Individual actors & performers, Films, cinema, Biography: arts and entertainment, Individual actors and performers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General