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Memories, Dreams and Reflections |
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Autore:
Marianne Faithfull
Editore:
HarperCollins UK
Anno:2008
ISBN: 9780007245819
Condizioni: BUONE CONDIZIONI
Categoria: AUTOBIOGRAFIE, INGLESE, , LINGUA ORIGINALE
ID titolo:86732256
"Memories, Dreams and Reflections" è in vendita da domenica 17 luglio 2022 alle 16:13 in provincia di Varese
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Note su "Memories, Dreams and Reflections": LIBRO IN LINGUA ORIGINALE !
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recensione di The Guardian 11.11.2007 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/nov/11/biography.features:
Almost 15 years ago, Marianne Faithfull published her autobiography. It was frank, talking of her life with Mick Jagger and as a heroin addict. When it was finished she announced: ’I lay my burden down.’ So what has happened in the last decade to warrant her producing another 300 pages? Surely not more drugs or parties and certainly no more Mick. Is there anything still to tell? Yes, but not just revelations: a chance to bite back or say sorry to those she offended. She opens up a box of mini-memoirs about the characters she has met: stories of Allen Ginsberg and his Jack Kerouac school of Disembodied Poetics; scenes from the deathbed of novelist Caroline Blackwood; and how the Queen of Bohemia, Henrietta Moraes, was sent to prison for cat burglary. She once walked away from the part of Lady Macbeth given to her by Polanski; he didn’t realise she was high on smack at the time. While some chapters are cheerless, strange, inaccessible and self-absorbed, bogged down with literary extracts and quotes, others are instantly engaging. Her mother was a dancer and her father an ex-MI6 spy who had interrogated Himmler. For a while, she was brought up in England in ’a nutty commune’ where, she says, ’there was sex everywhere, not an entirely happy and positive experience for a kid’. In the closing chapters, Faithfull describes what it is like to quit drugs, alcohol and a life of unpredictability: ’One of the hazards of reforming your evil ways is that some people won’t let go of their mind’s eye of you as a wild thing.’ But she is not looking for sympathy. And as autobiographies go, she has far more to offer than the young lives of Charlotte Church or Wayne Rooney. Faithfull is able to produce something of grit and newsworthiness.
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