The Tangier Diaries

'Tangier, the white city poised atop the dark continent which turns out to be the continent of light.' Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers, millionaires and socialites, who wrote, painted, partied and experienced life with an intensity and freedom that they never could back home. Into this louche and cosmopolitan world came John Hopkins, a young writer who became a part of the bohemian Tangier crowd with its core of Beats that included William Burroughs, Paul and Jane Bowles and Brion Gysin, as well as Tennessee Williams, Jean Genet, Yves Saint Laurent, Barbara Hutton and Malcolm Forbes. Those intoxicating decades - Tangier's 'Golden Years' - are long gone. Grand old houses that once sparkled with life are shuttered and dark and most of the eccentrics who once lived and loved in the city have died. But here, in the pages of John Hopkins' cult classic, all the decadence and flamboyance of those days is brought to life once more.

ISBN:	9780755645565
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Imprint:	Tauris Parke
Published date:	10 Jun 2021
DEWEY:	818.5403
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	248
Weight:	216g
Height:	129mm
Width:	196mm
Spine width:	19mm

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