Susi Wyss' "Guess Who Is the Happiest Girl in Town?" (2019/2021)
Zürich, Switzerland: Edition Patrick Frey (memoir), 2019/2021.
9.25" x 6.25" x 1.5", 839 pages, hardcover in dust jacket, ISBN 978-3-906803-51-7.
Guess Who Is the Happiest Girl in Town by Susi Wyss, as published in hardcover by Edition Patrick Frey (Zürich, Switzerland) initially in 2019. The 2019 first printing was an 800-copy run; the 2020 second printing was 1000 copies; and the 2021 third printing [shown here] was 1500 copies. Consulting editor was Andrew Coleman, assisted by Pauline Casati. Copyediting by Walter Hackman. Book design by Frank Hyde-Antwi and Katarina Lang Loveridge. Printed and bound by Eberl & Kœsel.
This is a semi-fictionalized autobiographical account of the life and many loves of Susi Wyss – call girl, socialite, madame, and muse. There are a couple of photos of Brion Gysin included, along with a number of mentions, from their introduction in Morocco to their friendship in Paris. The section "The Monstre Sacré of Tangier" is about Gysin, pp. 357-359. On page 595, there is a photo of Brion Gysin and his partner, François "Fafa" de Palaminy, from 1976.
Contents:
- Foreword
- Part One:
- "Childhood in Zürich"
- "The Corset"
- "At Fashion School"
- "Kisses and Bangs"
- "Select!"
- "Heiri"
- Heiri... and His Mother"
- "First Time in Paris"
- Part Two:
- "Johannesburg, a World Apart"
- "The Wedding"
- "Frida"
- "The Accident"
- "Return to Chilly Switzerland"
- Part Three:
- "Off to Paris for Good"
- "The Initiation: Saint-Tropez"
- "Le Lieutenant des Fleurs"
- "The Apartment"
- "Monkey Boy"
- "Beatles Hit Paris, Susi Hits London"
- "Heiri... and Barbara"
- "Ferreting in Cap Ferrat"
- "Harm Set, Harm Get"
- "The Seven Year Itch"
- "Dazed Days in Brittany with Lucy and a Loverboy"
- "The Good Life in Saint-Tropez"
- "Marathon Man Jonathan"
- "Morgan, the Making of"
- "Dalí and the Twins"
- "Making up with Barbara"
- "The Last Playboy and the Temptress of Saint-Tropez"
- "Marathon Man Jonathan, Act II"
- "The Mile-High Threesome"
- "Over the Moon"
- "Master and Servant"
- "The Vitamin Frenzy and Other Sexual Revolutions"
- "Babysitter Bernadette"
- "La Doce Vita in Rome"
- "Antonio Mio!"
- "Tripping with 'Count Dracula'"
- "An Accident Foreseen"
- "Rick"
- "Losing It in Lindos"
- "Gay Boys"
- "Making Madison"
- "June and Porter"
- "The Captain: Dalí's Secretary"
- "Rick Is Back"
- Part Four:
- "Moon, Beautiful Moon, Waxes and Wanes"
- "Riding Rick's Rollercoaster"
- "Firm but Fair: The Divorce Trial"
- "Stoned in Stonehenge"
- "Casablance: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship"
- "The Pleasure Palace of Morocco"
- "The Monstre Sacré of Tangier"
- "La Schweitzer"
- "An Astral Ride"
- "My Father's Death"
- "Between Heaven and Hell"
- "Angel Child"
- "Pills 'n' Thrills"
- "A Threesome and a Pair of Lobbs"
- "Furio Furioso in Rome"
- "Rick's Doppelgänger"
- "The Black Wings of Death"
- "This Is the End, My Only Friend"
- "Lucifer Rising: The Beautiful and the Damned"
- "The Raid"
- "Rick Home, Threesome"
- "Eckhart 'The Slave'"
- "Cold-Eyed Lina"
- "A Marrakesh Mélange"
- "The Hustler: Ginger Gino"
- "Partying at Lagerfeld's"
- "The Lost Boys"
- "A Bigger Splash"
- "Robo Cock"
- "One Pill Makes You Larger"
- "My First Slave"
- "A Roman Residence"
- "Dance of the Vampires"
- "German Slaves: Eckhart and Uli"
- "New Year Trans-ition"
- "A Call Girl's Calling"
- "Lederhosen Western"
- "The French Connection and the Pimp"
- "Swinging London"
- "From Dalí's Cadaqués with Love"
- "The Schoolgirl"
- "Gold-Toothed Mohammed"
- "The Antonio Dinners"
- "School Reunion"
- "The King's Bed"
- "Wild Sherry and the Shah of Persia"
- "A Spleen"
- "Shooting Nudes for the Glossies"
- "In the Cuckoo's Nest"
- "Tinseltown London"
- "The Last Night with Rick"
- "Dynamite Casper"
- "In Court"
- "Birthday Party with Dalí"
- Part Five:
- "Madam Susi"
- "Sandwiched in Cannes"
- "A Charming Elephant"
- "California über Alles"
- "Scoring in San Fran"
- "Slow Death in Suburbia with a Dead Head"
- "Party with Bobby the Dwarf"
- "Screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
- "City of Angels"
- "Fuck the Tuck"
- "Spielberg's Spiel"
- "A Cover Shoot"
- "Dwarf Bobby Revisited"
- "Trouble with the 'Führer'"
- "Alice Springs"
- "It's a Man's Man's World"
- "The Samurai"
- "A Cross of Iron"
- "Petite Bourgeoisie"
- "The Who?"
- "Carlito's Way"
- "The T-Shirt Party"
- "Hollywood in Cannes"
- "A Midnight Cowboy in Paris"
- "In Vogue"
- "Monsieur André"
- "Aude and the Disappeared Driver"
- "'Ssuussi!'"
- "Sugar Honey"
- "English Rose"
- "At the Plaza"
- "Kleenex"
- "Ghosts from the Past"
- "The Filipino Connection: Fun with Clan Boss Hermy"
- "Armaguedon"
- "Sado with Nando"
- "The New Apartment"
- "Ursi Austria and Lord Pimpleton"
- "Funny Games"
- "The Gretchen Question"
- "Jean Pierre and His Bad Habit"
- "Clochard de Luxe"
- "The Virgin Business"
- "Super-Cannes"
- "The Grizzly Bear and the Foxy Lady"
- "Mamatschi and the Slaves"
- "Slave Egg-Hart"
- "Benoit and the Criminals"
- "Speed, 'Ludes and Punk"
- "Two Yound Angry Men"
- "Morgan Is Sad"
- "Xmas in West Berlin"
- "Depression on New Year's Eve"
- "The Man Who Never Lost Control"
- "Boarding School"
- Part Six
- "Kenya"
- "The Virgin Suicides"
- "Cozy Macho Men"
- "In Concert and Bed"
- "Fuck Money"
- "The Destroy Dandy on Mandrax"
- "Posing for Oldman"
- "A Brand-New Life"
- "Good News"
- "Talking Bodies"
- Movies
- Soundtrack
- Image Credits and Courtesies
- Colophon







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