Tainted Love : Take a Trip Through the Drk Underbelly of the 60s

by Stewart Home

• ISBN13: 9780753510889
• ISBN10: 075351088X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-06-27
• Publisher: Virgin Books

Summary

Partially based on diaries kept by the author's mother, this kaleidoscopic view of 60s counterculture shows how the optimism of swinging London imploded into nihilism and drug addiction. Arriving in the Smoke at the age of sixteen in 1960, narrator Jilly O'Sullivan lands gainful employment as a high class hostess.

Author Biography

Stewart Home is an intellectual enfant terrible of the post-punk art movement and cult writing circuit. The author of over 20 novels and famous for elaborate hoaxes and agit-prop art events, he is often referred to as the English successor to Burroughs. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(52)
1. Better Living Thru Chemistry	5	(9)
2. The Vagaries of Narcissism	14	(10)
3. Erotic Boredom	24	(8)
4. Mother of Shame	32	(11)
5. Found Naked and Dead	43	(10)
Tape Transcription: Session 69 with R.D. Laing	53	(54)
6. Mr Self-Love and Drunkenness	69	(10)
7. The Blood Beast	79	(10)
8. White Rabbit	89	(8)
9. Blonde Adonis	97	(10)
10. A Woman is a Woman	107	(9)
The Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Oedipus Complex	116	(16)
11. Down in Flames	132	(12)
12. Love Child	144	(10)
13. The Mysteries of Love-Making Solved	154	(10)
14. Black Power in a Honky Town	164	(8)
15. The Day I Met God	172	(14)
Tape Transcription: Session 73 with R.D. Laing	186	(10)
16. The Conman Who Turned on the World	196	(10)
17. From Drugs to Rugs and Back Again	206	(11)
18. The Times Change and We Change Too	217	(8)
19. The Under-Assistant East Coast Promotion Man	225	(9)
20. Nowhere to Run	234	(8)
Afterword	242