(Hamish Hamilton / Penguin USA, 1990).
A seductive biography of the last professional exquisite.
‘Witty and amazing … both scholarly and hilarious at the same time’.
John Waters, New York Times.
4.00 am: the sea tonight is full of strange noises, the darkest it's ever been 'What seest thou else In the dark a… t.co/JDCiS0lfzL
4 am: the sea gently sways like dark silver; imaginary, insistent: it wants to take me away
5 am: no one has any idea of the sea; it only pretends to be there
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