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"For nearly thirty years, Robert Leleux has
remained internationally unknown as a celebrated bon vivant,
fashion icon, and man about town. Neither the best-selling
author of Highland Fling (1931) or Wigs on the Green
(1935), Mr. Leleux's work is in no way associated with that
circle of Bright Young Things who illuminated the London social
scene during the interwar years. He is not known to have been
portrayed by Julie Christie in John Schlesinger's Oscar-winning
film Darling. In 1972, Mr. Leleux wasn't made a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire. He does not currently reside at
Swinbrook House in the Cotswolds. Robert Leleux is the author of
The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy,
where more information on his life may be found." --
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The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy (2008)
In the Dear John letter Daddy left for Mother
and me, on a Saturday afternoon in early June 1996, on the inlaid
Florentine table in the front entry of our house, which we found that
night upon returning from a day spent in the crème-colored light of
Neiman’s, Daddy wrote that he was leaving us because Mother was crazy,
and because she’d driven me crazy in a way that perfectly suited her own
insanity.
In a memoir studded with delicious lines and unforgettable set
pieces, Robert Leleux describes his East Texas boyhood and coming of age
under the tutelage of his eccentric, bewigged, flamboyant, and knowing
mother.
Left high and dry by Daddy and living on their in-laws’ horse ranch in a
white-pillared house they can’t afford, Robert and Mother find
themselves chronically low on cash. Soon they are forced into more
modest quarters, and as a teenaged Robert watches with hilarity and
horror, Mother begins a desperate regimen of makeovers, extreme plastic
surgeries, and finally hairpiece epoxies---all calculated to secure a
new, wealthy husband.
Mother’s strategy takes her, with Robert in tow, from the glamorous
environs of the Neiman Marcus beauty salon to questionable surgery
offices and finally to a storefront clinic on the wrong side of Houston.
Meanwhile, Robert begins his own journey away from Mother and through
the local theater’s world of miscast hopefuls and thwarted
ambitions---and into a romance that surprises absolutely no one but
himself.
Written with a warmth and a wicked sense of fun that lighten even the
most awful circumstances, The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy is a
sparkling debut.
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