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Dandy in the Underworld.(Brief article)(Book review)
Horsley, a British dandy and putative artist notorious for having undergone a crucifixion, turns a grim childhood into cocktail-party fodder in this compulsively fizzy memoir. He spins tales of his wealthy father's infidelities and his alcoholic mother's crashed Jaguars, suicide attempts, sojourns in a mental hospital, and second marriage to a cult member clad entirely in orange. The glee for destructive behavior is less charming in Horsley's subsequent misadventures with drugs and sex, ...
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