# Erotic Vagrancy

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- Book: [Erotic Vagrancy](https://www.bookquiver.com/roger-lewis/erotic-vagrancy) ([Erotic Vagrancy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roger-lewis/erotic-vagrancy.md))
- Authors: [Roger Lewis](https://www.bookquiver.com/roger-lewis)
- Publisher: riverrun
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-08-5738-497-3
- Published: 2023-10-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

The comic genius of English writing takes on Hollywood, delusion, celebrity and last century's ultimate glamour couple: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. 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 pair as the starting point to tell the 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. 'Brilliantly funny . . . the book of the year' - Sunday Times 'By turns, funny, tragic, tender and vicious . . . a word-of-mouth sensation' - Guardian (P) 2023 Quercus Editions Ltd