This book is a more personal history than has ever before been
written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational,
intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her
life, her friends, her triumphs and mistakes.
A decade after the publication of Faithfull, one of the most
acclaimed rock autobiographies of all time, Marianne Faithfull is
back, vowing periodically leave her wicked ways behind and grow up,
but finding that somehow strange things keep happening.
A wry observer of her slightly off-kilter world, Marianne muses
nostalgically about afternoons languishing on Moroccan cushions at
George and Pattie's, getting high and listening to new songs. She
fondly recalls the outlandish antics of her Beat friends Allen
Ginsberg and William Burroughs; is frequently baffled at her image
in the press (opening the paper to read of her own demise: 'Sixties
Star in Death Plunge'); terrified by the curse sent by Kenneth
Anger; mortified by her history of reckless behaviour; not to
mention her near-death experience in Singapore while looking for an
opium den.
Marianne peoples her anecdotal memoir with legendary characters
one can imagine only Marianne assembling around her, both the
eccentric and the beautiful, from Henrietta Moraes and Donatella
Versace to Sofia Coppola, Juliette Greco, and Yves St. Laurent's
dog. Here is Marianne on the dark side of the sixties and the
bright side of the nineties, which saw her collaborating with the
likes of Blur and Jarvis Cocker; compelling recollections of an
unconventional childhood in her father's orgiastic literary commune
to a hilariously decadent few days at Lady Caroline Blackwood's
deathbed. Here she is her blossoming movie career, on her records
as subliminal autobiography. This is as intimate a portrait as
we've ever had of Marianne, as she meditates on sex and drugs,
confronts her alter-ego, the Fabulous Beast, and faces her own
mortality in her battle with breast cancer.
Since her last book Marianne has, in her own words, 'made quite
a few records, gone on many tours, tried to play it straight, and
Well, the rest is the subject of this book.'"
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