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Article: Derek Jarman: A Biography.(Review) (book review)
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Derek Jarman: A Biography Tony Peake Overlook Press 613 pages
Derek Jarman died from AIDS-related causes in 1994; this monumental work is the first full biography of the controversial filmmaker, artist, author and well-known gay-rights activist. Tony Peake, Jarman's literary agent and friend for the last seven years of his life, has written a well-researched and carefully detailed study of this complex and popular man. Jarman had a traditional middle-class English upbringing, and, as a boy, was coddled by an overindulgent mother and eyed with growing suspicion by his cold, patrician father, a Royal Air Force captain. In recounting Jarman's youth, Peake takes us on ...
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