{"id":5335,"title":"Tainted Love","dimensions":"19.3 x 12.8 cm, 248 p, language: English, publisher: Virgin Books Ltd, London, ISBN: 075351088X","date_begin":"2005-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/847","stream_count_app":30,"permalink":"tainted-love","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Stewart Home","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/643/large/Artistnovel_070.jpg?1342079696","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e Partially based on diaries kept by the author's mother, this kaleidoscopic view of 60s counterculture shows how the optimism of swinging London imploded into nihilism and drug addiction. Arriving in the Smoke at the age of sixteen in 1960, narrator Jilly O'Sullivan lands gainful employment as a high class hostess. Fresh out of school, Jilly joins the exclusive scene that was swinging before the rest of London. By the time of the hippie explosion she's not only mixing with slumlords, gangsters and black power activists, but narcophilic 'faces' like Alexander Trocchi, Brian Jones, Michael Reeves and John Lennon. When Jilly drops acid it's so that she might become a cosmonaut of inner space and, by 1965, heroin is her chosen method of coming down from LSD fuelled highs. Propelled through a world of Hindu gurus, Islamic mystics, bent coppers and decadent aristocrats, Jilly lives fast and knows everyone. From her grass-smoking and CND-supporting beatnik youth, through to her death at the end of the 70s, Jilly's story allegorises the fatal trajectory of London's flower children, who were reluctant to let go of hedonism even when the party was well and truly over. [Novel website](http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/libri.htm)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e Gedeeltelijk gebaseerd op dagboeken van de moeder van de schrijver ontstaat een kaleidoscopisch zicht op de tegencultuur van de jaren 1960. Het boek toont hoe het optimisme van het swingende Londen implodeerde tot nihilisme en drugsverslaving. De verteller, Jilly O’Sullivan, is zestien wanneer ze in 1960 in Londen belandt en een winstgevende betrekking vindt als ‘high class’-gastvrouw. Vers van school treedt Jilly toe tot de exclusieve scene die al swingde voor de rest van Londen. Tegen dat de hippiecultuur explodeert, ontmoet ze niet alleen huisjesmelkers, gangsters en black power-activisten, maar ook narcofiele bekendheden als Alexander Trocchi, Brian Jones, Michael Reeves en John Lennon. Ze slikt acid om een kosmonaut van de innerlijke ruimte te worden en tegen 1965 is heroïne haar favoriete methode om te bekomen van de LSD-highs. Jilly leeft snel en kent iedereen, voortgestuwd in een wereld van hindoe-goeroe’s, islamitische mystici, corrupte flikken en decadente aristocraten. Jilly’s verhaal – van haar wietrokende beatknik-jeugd tot haar dood eind jaren 70 – is een allegorie van het fatale pad dat de Londense ‘flower children’ aflegden, die het hedonisme niet wilden loslaten zelfs als het feestje al lang gedaan was. [Novel website](http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/libri.htm)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1857,"name":"Stewart Home","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}