May Week Was In June - More Unreliable Memoirs

Name: May Week Was In June
Price: 14.99 EUR
Author: Clive James
ISBN: 9780330474344

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Clive James

Picador
Paru le : 30/09/2009

It is the middle of the Swinging Sixties, and Clive James doesn't have much to show for it. May Week Was In June is the third hilarious, tender instalment... > Lire la suite

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It is the middle of the Swinging Sixties, and Clive James doesn't have much to show for it. May Week Was In June is the third hilarious, tender instalment of memoir from the iconic author, poet and broadcaster.'Nobody writes like Clive James' - SpectatorArriving at Cambridge University in a cold October in 1964, the young Clive James has yet to find a footing in the literary world. His move from Sydney and three years of hand-to-mouth existence in London has produced nothing but a handful of unpublished poems.
Pembroke College Cambridge offers a way out, if not up .

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Date de parution : 30/09/2009
Editeur : Picador
Collection : Unreliable Memoirs
ISBN : 978-0-330-47434-4
EAN : 9780330474344
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Biographie de Clive James

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.