Dandy in the Underworld: A Memoir
`Like Salvador Dali`s confessions, only far funnier and more self-deprecating, Dandy in the Underworld entertains as much as it revolts, is as tender as it is shocking, and as genuine as it is false.` Independent Sure to shock and surprise, Sebastian Horsley recounts his life story with excruciating self-knowledge and a savage wit. `One of the funniest, strangest and most revolting memoirs ever written.` Sunday Times Growing up at High Hall, in Hull, with his alcoholic mother, who regularly attempted suicide, his stepfather, a cult member dressed in orange, and his father, a crippled millionaire, Sebastian Horsley couldn`t wait to leave home. Searching for happiness, meaning and a good outfit he embarked on a doomed career as a punk guitarist, had a stormy relationship with a notorious Scottish gangster, enjoyed a wildly successful period as a stock-market entrepeneur and experienced a near fatal stint as a shark-hunter. Sebastian charts his years as a dandy, an artist, a male escort and a brothel connoisseur. There are the love affairs, with Rachel 1 and Rachel 2, and a harrowing descent into heroin and crack addiction. Dandy in the Underworld evokes his desperate attempts to get clean, culminating in his crucifixion in the Philippines.
- Autor: Sebastian Horsley
- Wydawnictwo: Hodder and Stoughton
- Rok wydania: 2008
- Okładka: miękka
- Liczba stron: 336
- Wymiary: 19.9 x 13 x 2.2 cm
- Ilustracje: None
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 9780340934081