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Lucky Lupin (Paperback)
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Lucky Lupin (Paperback)
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List price R284
Loot Price R144
Discovery Miles 1 440
You Save R140 (49%)
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Lucky Lupin is a poignant yet light-hearted story of survival
against the odds, based on Charlie Mortimer's life with HIV/Aids
during the early years (1984-1996), when there was neither
treatment nor cure. Using a combination of good luck, gallows
humour, Fray Bentos pies and copious quantities of Solpadeine,
Charlie survived not only the illness but the hysteria that
accompanied the so-called 'gay plague'. Anyone infected became a
social pariah; had the local launderette got word of his illness
they wouldn't have washed his sheets but burnt them. Whilst taking
full responsibility for the consequences of his behaviour - 'The
fact is you don't get AIDS from watching telly' - Charlie initially
took to the sofa and prepared for death, but, in time, he found the
inner strength required to confront his fatal diagnosis, becoming,
among other things, an antiques dealer and contemporary art
collector. With blistering and often hilarious candour Charlie also
recounts his childhood where he developed a passion for cars,
cultivated by his adventurous mother 'Nidnod', his dizzying array
of careers and somewhat curious domestic arrangements including the
'adoption' of a bank robber for twelve years. He also confronts
head on his experiences of coming to terms with confused sexuality,
addiction, epilepsy and clinical depression before finding lasting
contentment. Praise for Dear Lupin: 'As well as being the funniest
book I've read in ages, it's also extremely touching. A delight
then, on every front.' The Spectator 'Very, very funny.' Sunday
Times 'Wry, trenchant, often extremely funny, but also charmingly
forbearing and forgiving.' Country Life
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