PG Wodehouse wrote that 'the three essentials for an autobiography are that its compiler shall have had an eccentric father, a miserable misunderstood childhood and a hell of a time at his public school - and I had none of these advantages'. Jeremy Scott had them all and then went on to: have an Evelyn Waughesque youth; poison a battalion of the British Army (deliberately); try to work as a gigolo (his only client was a Guggenheim); get a British Prime Minister high on drugs; tangle with Lord Lucan; have Paul Newman's ...
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PG Wodehouse wrote that 'the three essentials for an autobiography are that its compiler shall have had an eccentric father, a miserable misunderstood childhood and a hell of a time at his public school - and I had none of these advantages'. Jeremy Scott had them all and then went on to: have an Evelyn Waughesque youth; poison a battalion of the British Army (deliberately); try to work as a gigolo (his only client was a Guggenheim); get a British Prime Minister high on drugs; tangle with Lord Lucan; have Paul Newman's daughter fall in love with him; and live with Peter Mayle, his best friend, in Provence.
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publisher's white cloth, lettered black at the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. Jeremy Scott had a spectacularly successful life in advertising in the 1960s and 1970s until reinventing himself first in Provence and then as an ascetic, whose life was saved by Marcus Aurelius. ISBN: 1861974280 Pages: 341 Fine in fine dust jacket.
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