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Vanished Years (2012)

by Rupert Everett(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0349000220 (ISBN13: 9780349000220)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

review 1: I don't often read autobiographies but have fallen into the habit of doing so while on holiday, the goal being the serendipitous discovery of a real gem. With that in mind I picked up this and Russell Brand's book from a charity shop in Amesbury. Brand's was superficial, but to my surprise Rupert Everett turns out to be one of the most engaging and lyrical writers of all time. The fact that he no doubt dashed this book off in odd moments while waiting to go on stage or shoot a movie ought to cause me great resentment, as on my best day I'd struggle to turn out prose half as good. But there are some geniuses of letters, and it seems Mr Everett is one.
review 2: Rup Everett doesn't have a lot to say, but he says it damned well. Not a tell-all or showoff-all. The ... moreonly person he disses is himself, eg., at nude-night in a Berlin bar the management couldn't find his clothes bag. UK critics seemed rapturous : Rup has writerly dexterity..the sole reason to read this book, which is why a friend lent. He fractures chronology and past-present in his arranged and disarranged life, presented as revue "sketches."From the chaotic mess of a TV pilot in Hollywood to doomed UK fashionista Isabella Blow (who finally succeeded in killing herself) to the death of his father, Rup adroitly handles vanities and idiocies w minimum longueurs, though he bursts "into tears" too often. But then, as he says, all of life is Acting. He knows how to ignore. When Natasha Richardson visits him backstage, she's w an "older woman." (It's her mum). He writes admiringly of her first husband and doesn't mention her second. Call it revealing discretion.There's no dirt here; there's not even dust. It's irreverent, trivial and, at times, effective. The kid has Talent. less

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