A wickedly funny memoir with echoes of David Sedaris and Augusten
Burroughs, "Beautiful People" (originally published in hardcover as
"Nasty") is now a BBC comedy hit series from the producer of "Ab
Fab" and "The Office."
Proclaimed "the most brilliant, brash thing in type" by Liz Smith,
Simon Doonan's saucy prose has established him as an emerging star
among literary humorists. In this break-through memoir, reminiscent
of both Sedaris and Burroughs, he revisits the landscape of his
youth, and displays the irresistible charm that earned him his
dedicated audience.
Long before he became a celebrity in his own right--as the author
of best-selling books, as the style arbiter of VH1 and "America's
Top Model," and the marketing genius behind Barney's New
York--Simon Doonan was a "scabby knee'd troll" in Reading, England.
In "Beautiful People," Doonan returns to the working-class
neighborhood of his youth, and chronicles the misadventures of the
Doonan clan in all their wacky glory. Readers meet his mother
Betty, whose gravity-defying, peroxide hairdo signified her natural
glamour; his father Terry, an amateur vintner who turned parsnips
into the legendary Chateau Doonan; his grandfather D.C., a
hard-drinking betting man who plotted to win his fortune by turning
Simon into a jockey; and his demented grandma Narg and
schizophrenic Uncle Ken, both of whom lived upstairs.
Fearing he would fall victim to the insanity that runs in his
family, or, worse, the banality of suburban life, Doonan decamps
with his flamboyant best-friend Biddie to London, where they hope
to find the Beautiful People, that elusive clan who luxuriate on
floor pillows and amuse each other with bon mots. Throughout the
memoir--in essays about family holidays, the tart who lived next
door, his first job--Doonan continues his bumbling pursuit of the
fabulous life, only to learn, in the end, that perhaps the
Beautiful People were the ones he left behind.
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