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Tainted Love
by
Stewart Home (Goodreads Author)
Partially based on diaries kept by the author's mother, this kaleidoscopic view of 60s counterculture shows how the optimism of swinging London imploded into nihilism and drug addiction. Arriving in the Smoke at the age of sixteen in 1960m narrator Jilly O'Sullivan lands gainful emplyment as a high class hostess.
Fresh out of school, Jilly joins the exclusive scene that was...more
Fresh out of school, Jilly joins the exclusive scene that was...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
November 10th 2005
by Virgin Books
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A fun read for its clever reimagining of Swinging London, featuring notably seedy appearances by John Lennon, Brian Jones, Colin MacInnes, and William Burroughs - along with more significant turns by Michael Reeves, Alex Trocchi, the Kray brothers, and Michael X. But it's really worthwhile as a subterreanen paen to a lost child and the nameless background players who create the ferment of any genuine art scene.
(Tom McCarthy said he was reading it.)
Wow. What a detailed description of life in the 60s and 70s in swinging London! I remember the Patty Hearst's kidnapping, but felt like I had to look back on a lot of the details of people and places that were mentioned.
Home's writing reminds me of Rosalyn Drexler's. It's funny and weird and punk and all over the place in an unexplainable way. I ordered two more Stewart Home books based on reading this and Slow Death.
Wow. What a detailed description of life in the 60s and 70s in swinging London! I remember the Patty Hearst's kidnapping, but felt like I had to look back on a lot of the details of people and places that were mentioned.
Home's writing reminds me of Rosalyn Drexler's. It's funny and weird and punk and all over the place in an unexplainable way. I ordered two more Stewart Home books based on reading this and Slow Death.
Dreary slab of cliches and bad writing, barely enlivened by the celebrity cameos and dragging a dead weight of second-rate intellectualism, much like a lot of the 60s counter-culture.
There is more on this book and links to the non-fiction material on which it is based here: http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/lib...
a great read - a reconstructed verison of the author's mother's heroic/tragic life in the Notting Hill demimonde of the 1960s and 70s, full of great set-piece scenes invovling Trocchi, Michael X, the Krays and others..it'd make a cracking film...one of my favourite London books.
the best novel ever written about the sixties in London.
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Stewart Home (born 1962) is a British artist, film maker, writer, subcultural pamphleteer, underground art historian, activist and ego-maniac on a world-historical scale. He is also perhaps the only London born novelist given to reciting his fiction from memory while standing on his head!
Home is best known in Anglo-American mainstream culture for his neo-conceptual art work and more recent novels,...more
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