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Clive, James

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Unreliable Memories

JONATHAN CAPE.

'These literary-critical essays are compact with wit and penetration but also have a kind of freshness about them, as if the author has never got over his first rapture of enjoyment at the sheer thisness of poetry and prose. James is in the tradition of Hazlitt, Bagehot, and Desmond MacCarthy, with a gusto worthy to succeed theirs and a philosophy well set out in his own introduction. "Literature", he writes, "says most things itself, when it is allowed to." Criticism like this expands that allowance and adds to its pleasure' John Bayley, Observer 'His outstanding talent is as a cicerone, guiding the ignorant traveller with patience, knowledge and wit round some favourite literary edifice and communicating his own admiration of it to the goggling and fascinated visitor ...the lasting impression is of our critic's truly amazing breadth of reference' Times Literary Supplement 'Mr James is hungry for -- and not unworthy of -- engagement with important issues. A collection of dignity and coherence ...tellingly timely' Sunday Times

From the land of shadows

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Cultural Amnesia

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Macmillan

Unreliable Memoirs

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Picador

Visions Before Midnight

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Pan Books, Ltd.

Glued to the Box: Television Criticism from "The Observer" 1979-82

Humor & Entertainment

Television

CLIVE JAMES ON TELEVISION (PICADOR BOOKS)

Movies

This book shows the diversity of the author's non-fiction writing. The first section, "Assessments and Celebrations", includes Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, a clutch of Australian poets - and Billy Connolly. In "The Politics of TV", after-dinner speeches (which reduced his audiences to helpless laughter) and addresses to the BBC Board of Governors make some of his robust views on TV broadcasting public for the first time. In verse Auden is reconsidered - and Gabriela Sabatini adored. Finally, he does get to meet Frank Sinatra and sends "postcards" from Miami, Los Angeles and Sydney.

Dreaming Swimmer Non Fiction 1992

Pan.

Clive James on television

Literature & Fiction

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