North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV - Hardcover

James, Clive

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9780330481281: North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330481282 ISBN 13: 9780330481281

Publisher: Picador, 2006

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After Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June comes the next instalment in the ongoing saga that is Clive James's life. His fourth -- and eagerly awaited -- volume of autobiography promises to be every bit as eventful, entertaining, engrossing and honest as the previous three.

At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so he informed his journal, reasonably satisfied. With his criticism beginning to appear in magazines and newspapers such as the New Statesman, and his poetry published in Carcanet, as well as a play then being peformed to rave reviews at the Arts Theatre, James had good reason to be content. But what happened next?

This is the question posed, and answered by, North Face of Soho. Intelligent, amusing and provocative - the words apply to the man himself as much as his memoirs - it's a book that can't come soon enough for the legions of Clive James fans worldwide.

'His proses mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that makes his pages truly shimmer' Financial Times

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Review:

'By far the most engaging of this year's literary memoirs was
Clive James's North Face of Soho' -- North Face of Soho

'I look forward to the next six.' -- Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph

'Never dull, the book slips down easily' -- Guardian

'One of the world's greatest one-liner writers...he writes with
intense perfectionism' -- Sunday Times

'The 70s in London would have been infinitely less amusing without
the willingness of Clive James to take chances'
-- Times Literary Supplement

'combines the best of his literary and observational talents with
a brilliant eye for comedy...yet another triumph' -- Francesca Segal, Financial Times

'his book is enormously entertaining, and the author comes over as
likeable and surprisingly modest' -- Selina Hastings, Sunday Telegraph

`Hilarious . . . There are few more engaging voices than James's' -- Tim Adams, Observer

Book Description:

A fourth volume of memoirs from one of the UK's (and Australia's) best-loved personalities

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