MY WICKED, WICKED WAYS

by Errol Flynn ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

This posthumously published autobiography of one of the most flamboyant characters ever to make newspaper headlines is a curious mixture of bravado and bafflement. Early in the book, in speaking of his near bankruptcy, Flynn says; ""It is a habit of mine, when you are down and out, to go to the 'best spots'"". Much later, having revealed reams about himself, his friends, his wives and mistresses, he confesses that he does not understand himself. But Flynn was not an unaware man and though he protests too much about how much reading he has done -- as though that should count for something of value, his book is not simply a vacuous account of a dizzying alcoholic whirl from one scandal to another. In a sense he seems to be reliving his life as he tells it and this accounts for the various changes of mood one finds in the book. It also accounts for the fact that the book has little perspective. It's no exaggeration to say that Errol Flynn's public-private life was always more newsworthy than his film career but he insists that neither the movies, nor his wives, mistresses, brawls, fortunes made and lost, serve to explain Flynn. But just what he is, the Playboy of the Western World is unprepared to say. Essentially, and he acknowledges this, Flynn was never in, he was far, far out.

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Publisher: Putnam

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION