[PDF] An Education by Nick Hornby in Arts-Photography

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This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal; conversational; intimate and revealing; this is her no-holds-barred account of her life; her friends; her triumphs and mistakes.A decade after the publication of lsquo;Faithfullrsquo;; one of the most acclaimed rock autobiographies of all time; Marianne Faithfull is back; vowing periodically leave her wicked ways behind and grow up; but finding that somehow strange things keep happening.A wry observer of her slightly off-kilter world; Marianne muses nostalgically about afternoons languishing on Moroccan cushions at George and Patties; getting high and listening to new songs. She fondly recalls the outlandish antics of her Beat friends Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs; is frequently baffled at her image in the press (opening the paper to read of her own demise: Sixties Star in Death Plunge); terrified by the curse sent by Kenneth Anger; mortified by her history of reckless behaviour; not to mention her near-death experience in Singapore while looking for an opium den.Marianne peoples her anecdotal memoir with legendary characters one can imagine only Marianne assembling around her; both the eccentric and the beautiful; from Henrietta Moraes and Donatella Versace to Sofia Coppola; Juliette Greco; and Yves St. Laurents dog. Here is Marianne on the dark side of the sixties and the bright side of the nineties; which saw her collaborating with the likes of Blur and Jarvis Cocker; compelling recollections of an unconventional childhood in her fathers orgiastic literary commune to a hilariously decadent few days at Lady Caroline Blackwoods deathbed. Here she is her blossoming movie career; on her records as subliminal autobiography. This is as intimate a portrait as weve ever had of Marianne; as she meditates on sex and drugs; confronts her alter-ego; the Fabulous Beast; and faces her own mortality in her battle with breast cancer.Since her last book Marianne has; in her own words; made quite a few records; gone on many tours; tried to play it straight; andhellip; Well; the rest is the subject of this book.