Right Choice?
It was Anne's birthday last week. She provided her list. As usual it contained a couple of books including a biography of Che Guevara.Why Che Guevara? Her interest started when she saw that wonderful film of Walter Seles Diarios de motocicleta
The film was followed with Travelling with Che Guevara-The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Grenado.
By now Anne was ready to take on a heavyweight biog. So, Che Guevara- A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson ended up on the list. Eight hundred odd densly printed pages.
So it's off to Waterstones. One rather dog-eared copy of the book. But a foot or so along in the biog section was a book that had made us both roar with laughter when it was read on Radio 4, I think as a Book of the Week.
I re-acquainted myself with Giegud's wonderfully wicked gossip before it was enclosed in wrapping paper.
As a taster, this is Gielgud's letter written in the Cipriani, Venice 24th June 1959:
"It is at last blazingly hot-yesterday Patrick escorted us to "the beach that like to be visited"-extraordinary cruising around with "nests" in long grass and occasional gun emplacements (now empty) which give excellent vantage points for voyerism. People walk up and down in their bathing slips (mostly with enormous bulging erections) smiling and beckoning and disappearing at intervals into the undergrowth in pairs. I had one or two vagrant fancies, and G. went swimming with an 18-year-old Australian (freckles and hideous accent) and was not seen for about two hours. I must say it was rather fun, though a bit barefaced in the full glare of the afternoon sun." I just hope Anne enjoys it! Cheers t
posted by Tony @ Sunday, August 07, 2005
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