Fast and Louche: Confessions of a flagrant sinner

by JeremyScott (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $74.51

  'On Easter Sunday Father killed and ate a dog. He and the man with him cooked it on a primus in their tent after yet another unsuccessful day spent searching for their companion...' The opening sentence of the book PG Wodehouse wrote that: 'the three essentials for an autobiography are that its compiler shall have had an eccentric father, a miserable misunderstood childhood and a hell of a time at his public school and I had none of these advantages'. Jeremy Scott had them all and then went on to: * have an Evelyn Waugh like youth * poison a battalion of the British Army (deliberately) * work as a gigolo (well, he tried, amongst the glitterati of New York) * get Edward Heath stoned on amphetamines * tangle with Lord Lucan; and work with David Bailey and Terry Donovan; and have Paul Newman's daughter fall in love with him * live with Peter Mayle, his best friend in Provence This is a wildly funny, hugely entertaining and, in part tragic, memoir of an accidental life spent in the fast lane (an E type Jaguar in fact) with everyone who was anyone in the 1960s and 1970s.