Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue: The Dark Century
“I”
1 Boy at the Window
2 Weakling
3 Arousal
4 The Queerness of Cities
5 Marvellous Women
6 Gallant Men
7 Stage Sets
8 Starting Over
9 Early Success
10 Early Failure
11 Breakdowns
12 Wilderness
13 Good Boys and Bad
14 Sewer Boots
Iconoclast
15 “I began”
16 The Road South
17 Mr Hyde
18 Soho Nights
19 Brothers and Lovers
20 Wilde Man
21 Follies
22 Homeless
23 Love and Power
24 The Violence of Grass
25 Shades of Blue
26 Tangier
27 Limbo
28 Bets
29 The Fig Tree
30 “Such Ardour”
31 Settling In
32 Younger Crowds
33 Ancient Rhymes
34 Hommage à Bacon
“Icon”
35 A Toast to Death
36 An Englishman Abroad
37 Echoes
38 Spectacle
39 Friends and Rivals
40 Love and Money
41 Performance Artist
42 The Last Picture Show
43 Fresh Faces
44 Suddenly!
45 Curtain Calls
46 Borrowed Time
47 An Errand
Picture Section
Notes
Documentation
Index
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits
About the Author
Also by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
About the Publisher