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By: Lionel Bitchie
Date: 29th Sep 05
Format: Book
Motivation: Improve your dinner conversation
What:
Mapplethorpe: A Biography
Who:
Patricia Morrisroe
Where:
Borders, Amazon and on order through most good book sellers
Mapplethorpe:A Biography is a mixture of the beautiful and the tragic, a story of honesty and undoing, and an insight into a life that is both real and hypnotic. A definite page turner (no relation to Tina Turner) this biography profiles a self-righteous swine and captor of beauty who was driven by the desire for fame and undone by a voracious lust.
Although it seems these elements could be twisted into the voiceover for a bad Neighbours commercial this book is no soapie, and is handled not with sensationalism, but instead with a certain sensitivity and class.