"One of the funniest, strangest and most revolting memoirs ever written." - Sunday Times (London)
"If you can stand it, it is likely to be one of the most compelling reads of the year." - New Statesman (London)
Hello. This isn't actually Sebastian Horsley - but Sebastian's publisher. And I'll be posting various Sebastian-related links, interviews, photos, videos - and tempt you to discover Dandy in the Underworld.
Sebastian Horsley's blazing memoir Dandy in the Underworld releases September 6, 2007 in the UK by the wonderful publisher Sceptre . And in the US on March 11, 2008 by us Harper Perennial.
Read the Slog: Sebastian's blog can be found, in its entirely, here. . Excerpts will be posted on MySpace from time to time.
Dandy in the Underworld is the story of Sebastian Horsley's life. It begins with his bizarre and neglected childhood at High Hall, where his alcoholic mother regularly attempted suicide (his drunk, crippled billionaire father moved out when her lover moved in). Searching for happiness, meaning and a good outfit led to his doomed career as a punk guitarist and his reinvention as a millionaire stockbrocker and shark-hunter. Escaping a stormy relationship with Scotland's most notorious mass-murderer (who was also sleeping with his wife), he arrived in the capital. The invites to the party promised, 'Sebastian Comes to Save London'. It charts his years as a dandy, an artist, a visitor of prostitutes, a period as a prostitute and his love affairs with the two Rachels. Then, there is his descent into heroin and crack additction, his desperate attempts and even more desperate failures to overcome it and his Crucifixion. Finally there is a sense of a man who has found a kind of peace. Painfully honest and completely unflinching, it is written with a refreshing lack of sentimality, a lot of self-knowledge and a gift for entertaining. In writing this book, life and art have come together.
