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The sexploits of Mariella Novotny

26 June 2021

9:00 AM

26 June 2021

9:00 AM

The Novotny Papers: ‘A Bit Vulture, A Bit Eagle’ Lilian Pizzichini

Amberley Publishing, pp.256, 18.99

Orgies! Gangsters! Drugs! Spies! Scandals! This biography promises much but I’m not sure it actually delivers, or not in any credible way. Searching for facts in the foetid gloop of Pizzichini’s prose feels like bog-snorkelling. The subject, Mariella Novotny, was a ‘party girl’, or prostitute, who turns up like Zelig in many 1960s scandals.

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