Unreliable Memoirs

James, Clive; O'Rourke, P J [Introduction]

ISBN 10: 1447275489 / ISBN 13: 9781447275480

Verlag: Picador, 2015

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Unreliable Memoirs
• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1447275489
• ISBN-13: 9781447275480
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Good
• Gewicht: 3 Unzen
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  • Biographies & Autobiographies

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Inhaltsangabe

The first instalment of his famed autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching introduction to the life of the author, broadcaster, critic and poet, Clive James.

'It is one of the most tender, frank and, above all, funny accounts of growing up I have ever read' –Michael Parkinson

In the first instalment of James's memoirs we follow the young Clive on his journey from boyhood to the cusp of manhood, when his days of wearing short trousers are finally behind him.

Battling with school, girls, various relatives, the local wildlife, and an overwhelming desire to be a superhero, Clive's adventures growing up in the suburbs of post-war Sydney are a hair-raising and uproarious evocation of a lost world.

I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me . . .

'James cannot find it within himself to write a dull paragraph' – The Times

With an introduction from P.J. O'Rourke, journalist, satirist and author of Holidays in Hell.

Unreliable Memoirs is the first book of memoir from Clive James. Continue his story with Falling Towards England.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 holds 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.