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2008-05-19
BlackburnТs just-published memoir of growing up amid the wild excesses of the postwar avant-garde, The Three of Us, is by turns hilarious, saddening and shocking. Her parents and their friends Ц who included the painter Francis Bacon, with whom her father had a brief homosexual fling Ц lived in a haze of vodka, discount cigarettes smoke, love affairs and vicious rows. УYears later, I met the poet Michael Hamburger, whoТd been a friend of my fatherТs, and he said to me in his wonderful, lugubrious voice, СOh, hello, I didnТt think youТd ever survive,ТФ says Blackburn. УIt absolutely couldnТt happen today Ц youТd have an army of social workers knocking on the door. You couldnТt have a 12-year-old walk into a room and someone say, СGod, look at those tits,Т but this was the height of the bohemian sexual revolution and Lolita had just been published. Then there was the pill: the pill came along and if you didnТt want to go to bed with someone, you were frigid.Ф0 Comments | Link to This | Back to top
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