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 When I started reading Sex, Knives and Bouillabaisse I was under the impression I was reading a novel written in the first person. I thought it was quick, funny, witty and way over the top, rather like a Thomas Berger novel, full of exaggeration and impossible flights of crazy humour. When it dawned on me that I was reading an autobiography by someone who had lived these mad, over-the-top experiences, my enjoyment increased tenfold.  Kelly's regular habit of using the second person present tense (sometimes directed at the reader, sometimes to describe the past) is, at first, somewhat uncomfortable but this is soon mitigated by her hard-boiled and often-filthy sense of humour, and endless stream of entertaining one-liners. Kelly is adept at re-creating a real sense of time and place, in this case a big hotel in Brighton, circa 1975. In the gonzo tradition of Hunter S. Thompson and Lester Bangs, she sacrifices literary polish for energetic bravado - and most of the time gets away with it.
?'It all started in 1975. I was fifteen years, three hundred and forty-four days old, nothing but a kid, albeit a kid they'd highlighted in The Year Book as a hard case. I was four months out of juvey, give or take, and I had a swagger, an edge, abrasion ...'?So begins the hilarious, often vexed, and constantly twisted life story of Teri Louise Kelly in this first volume of her memoirs. Writing as the boy she once was, Teri takes us into the cloistered world of swanky hotels in England and Paris. She describes with solicitous accuracy the pranks, mind games and seedy morals of an ensemble of l Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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