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"You could find yourself as Nicky Haslam's `plus one' at the swellest parties with his delicious memoir."
--Harpers Bazaar, Naomi West
This is a wonderfully entertaining memoir, gossipy, touching and tender, even if at times it verges on self-parody. --Literary Review
Nicky is featured as a `style hero' --Sunday Times
'Society gossip galore by the gadfly's gadfly' --Daily Mail
`this really rather wonderful book is about a life devoted to "Looking the part"' --Daily Telegraph
`Haslam is an intriguing man...[and] can write wonderfully well' --The Spectator
'the joy of this book comes from Nicky's undying joie de vivre'
--Indemepdent on Sunday
'gloriously entertaining' --Tatler
`Haslam writes evociatively and touchingly'
--TLS
It is... boisterously good company and proof that if Haslam knows one thing, it's that you can only get away with a life like his if you are never, ever boring. --Metro
A terrifically entertaining read! --Daily Mail
Extremely diverting, essentially kind-hearted and well-written. --Evening Standard
--Harpers Bazaar, Naomi West
This is a wonderfully entertaining memoir, gossipy, touching and tender, even if at times it verges on self-parody. --Literary Review
Nicky is featured as a `style hero' --Sunday Times
'Society gossip galore by the gadfly's gadfly' --Daily Mail
`this really rather wonderful book is about a life devoted to "Looking the part"' --Daily Telegraph
`Haslam is an intriguing man...[and] can write wonderfully well' --The Spectator
'the joy of this book comes from Nicky's undying joie de vivre'
--Indemepdent on Sunday
'gloriously entertaining' --Tatler
`Haslam writes evociatively and touchingly'
--TLS
It is... boisterously good company and proof that if Haslam knows one thing, it's that you can only get away with a life like his if you are never, ever boring. --Metro
A terrifically entertaining read! --Daily Mail
Extremely diverting, essentially kind-hearted and well-written. --Evening Standard
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From the legendary interior designer Nicky Haslam, a dazzling and witty account of his frenetic life—from the ‘50s to the present—in London, the south of France, New York, Arizona and Los Angeles, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time.
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
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Nicky Haslam knows how to win friends and influence people,
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This review is from: Redeeming Features (Hardcover)
I knew very little about Nicky Haslam prior to reading this book. I noticed photographs in the newspapers some years ago of him - a rather elderly interior designer in London who was obsessed with Liam Gallagher and had changed his appearance to resemble his new hero. I grew up on a Manchester housing estate quite similar to the Gallaghers which made this society figure's obsession seem incredibly weird. Who was this man and why were the press so indulgent of him?
Here is the answer. From his youthful wealthy and privileged background, Haslam was attracted to Gypsies and Teddy Boys. He has a knack of accumulating distinguished and entertaining friends from Tallulah Bankhead and Diana Coopper to Andy Warhol and the Prince of Wales. His perfectly functioning gaydar leaves one to believe that in 1950's London practically every male - married or otherwise - was either gay or bisexual. It is also beautifully written and highly amusing. Talleyrand was supposed to have said that those who did not live in the years before the revolution could not understand the sweetness of living. One feels much the same sense of a past, sweet existence on reading this warm hearted and utterly engaging story.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Redeeming Features (Hardcover)
This is an enjoyable romp through the gay world of London and the States in the 50s and 60s. But it is more than that. Beneath the clatter of dropped names of faded stars there is someone with an observant eye for his surroundings and real literary talent.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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A Fabulous Read,
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This review is from: Redeeming Features: A Memoir (deckle edge) (Hardcover)
Redeeming Features is a hilarious, engagingly readable romp through one man's charmed life; full of anecdotes, indiscretions, and information about the rich, the creative and the famous. Well-written with evocative passages recalling a childhood in the countryside. What a memory - Nicky must have kept daily diaries for years. I thoroughly recommend it.
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