North Face of Soho by Clive James
As graduation leads him back to London, author, poet and broadcaster Clive James hits the big time in this fourth instalment of his warm, humorous memoirs.
It’s not just that he writes a lot, but that he writes with intense perfectionism, and delivers his gags with honed elegance * Sunday Times *
I feel I know more about the author after reading it than I gleaned from all of his other books put togetherThis is a book about hard-earned self-knowledge. What makes it funny is quite how hard the self-knowledge was to earn -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
His proses mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that makes his pages truly shimmer * Financial Times *
I feel I know more about the author after reading it than I gleaned from all of his other books put togetherThis is a book about hard-earned self-knowledge. What makes it funny is quite how hard the self-knowledge was to earn -- William Leith * Evening Standard *
His proses mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that makes his pages truly shimmer * Financial Times *
Clive James was the author of more than forty books. As well as essays, he published collections of literary and television criticism, travel writing, verse and novels, plus five volumes of autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week Was In June, North Face of Soho and The Blaze of Obscurity. As a television performer he appeared regularly for both the BBC and ITV, most notably as writer and presenter of the Postcard series of travel documentaries. He published several poetry collections, including the Sunday Times bestseller Sentenced to Life, and a translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, which was also a Sunday Times bestseller. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia and in 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature. He held honorary doctorates from Sydney University and the University of East Anglia. In 2012 he was appointed CBE and in 2013, an Officer of the Order of Australia. He died in 2019.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330481274 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330481274 |
| Title | North Face of Soho |
| Author | Clive James |
| Series | Unreliable Memoirs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2008-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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