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The Memoirs of a Venus Lackey Derek Marlowe

The Memoirs of a Venus Lackey By Derek Marlowe

The Memoirs of a Venus Lackey by Derek Marlowe


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A once-celebrated playboy recalls his life of debauchery from inside his own coffin. A macabre and darkly witty novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Dandy in Aspic.

The Memoirs of a Venus Lackey Summary

The Memoirs of a Venus Lackey by Derek Marlowe

In his coffin, awaiting judgment, a once-celebrated playboy recalls his life of debauchery. He remembers his first seduction by the entrancing blonde Antonella one hot afternoon on an Adriatic island. He surveys lasciviously his subsequent notorious career as a full-time sensualist in the bedrooms and boudoirs of two continents. He ponders his descent into bankruptcy and alcoholism. And, most disturbing of all, he contemplates his bizarre relationship with Catesby, a satanic figure who hovers mockingly over his life until the final, terrifying climax...

About Derek Marlowe

Derek Marlowe was born in London in 1938. He was a novelist, playwright and screen writer. A Dandy in Aspic, his first novel, was originally published in 1966 and became an international bestseller. It was translated into 15 languages and Marlowe himself adapted the book into a film starring Laurence Harvey and Mia Farrow. He was the author of eight further novels, including The Disappearance, which was originally published as Echoes of Celandine and became a film starring Donald Sutherland. The Memoirs of a Venus Lackey was first published in 1968. Marlowe had one son, Ben, and died in 1996 at the age of fifty-eight.

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NLS9781909269699
9781909269699
1909269697
The Memoirs of a Venus Lackey by Derek Marlowe
New
Paperback
Silvertail Books
2017-02-02
148
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