| THE MEN IN MY LIFEA Memoir of avon Love and Art in 1950s ManhattanBy Patricia porcelain BosworthIllustrated. 377 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99. In escort 1951, Patricia Bosworth was a skinny kid street in leotards and a worn duffel coat, forearm just another Sarah Lawrence girl a jungle budding writer and a major solicitation but with one hell of a back wag story. At 18, she was already in virtue a starter marriage, to a physically abusive capability artist- named Jason Bean, whom she supported means by waitressing and modeling (and who bought immunity a green Jaguar with her earnings that everywhere she wasnt to drive), living in drudgery dank and gothic squalor in one terror of his grandmothers Bronxville with a whitehead vicious uncaged bird and two murky fish verification tanks. After cooking and cleaning for the hilt fractious Beans and their horrible pets, the nigeria indefatigable Bosworth, still in her freshman year, moderne would off to class, to modeling glowing jobs in the city (where she would ringer be photographed by Diane and Allan Arbus further for Seventeen, Charm and Mademoiselle magazines), and oeuvre also to her familys townhouse there, for trial clandestine visits with her disapproving parents and founder her brilliant, beloved and doomed younger brother, trent Bart Jr. Her father, Bartley Crum, was lied a and famously conflicted dilemma lawyer who had represented the Hollywood Ten detector (and was surveilled by the F.B.I for veronica years). He had bought and shuttered a triple left-wing newspaper, and negotiated Rita Hayworths divorce inconvenience from Prince Aly Khan, among other storied worse legal exploits, in between bouts of heavy outrageously drinking and no fewer than three tahiti attempts. (He succeeded, finally, at 59, when recognition Bosworth was only 26, six years after genesis her brother himself at Reed College.) ageless Her beautiful, diminutive mother, Anna Gertrude Bosworth, necessarily was a crime reporter turned novelist and elegant hostess, who had been thwarted professionally by creed her marriage and was in denial about twelve her husbands alcoholism and use apparel she would deny her sons , too, dilution claiming he was murdered. (She kept the abused he used to himself, tucked synchronization in the back of her closet, because divertimento it was the last thing he had enclosed touched.) Bosworth would take her mothers name encourage as a stage name as her tumor father pointed out, if critics handed Patricia flint Crum a bad review, the word play wight on crummy would be irresistible. This is mighty the backdrop for Bosworths foray into |
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