Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James: Reliable Essays:The Best of Clive James

Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James: Reliable Essays:The Best of Clive James

by Clive James (Author), Clive James (Author)

Synopsis

Including Clive James's most memorable pieces - his `Postcard from Rome', his observations on Margaret Thatcher, his insights into Heaney, Larkin and Orwell - this book also contains brilliantly funny examinations of characters like Barry Humphries, as well as showcasing James's more thoughtful, analytical side.

From Germaine Greer to Marilyn Monroe, from the nature of celebrity to German culpability for the Holocaust, Reliable Essays is an unmissable collection from one of the best writers of our time.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 369
Edition: On Demand
Publisher: Picador
Published: 23 May 2013

ISBN 10: 1447241045
ISBN 13: 9781447241041

Author Bio

Clive James is the author of more than twenty books, including collections of essays, literary and television criticism, travel writing, novels and verse, plus his famous Unreliable Memoirs. 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.

His work includes Cultural Amnesia, Sentenced to Life and his own translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy.