The Blaze Of Obscurity

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1743036825
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs Book 5 written by Clive James and published by Picador. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, Clive James will always be a TV presenter first and foremost, and a writer second -- this despite the fact that his adventures with the written word took place before, during and after his time on the small screen. Nevertheless, for those who remember clips of Japanese endurance gameshows and Egyptian soap operas, Clive reinventing the news or interviewing Hefner and Hepburn, Polanski and Pavarotti, Clive's 'Postcards' from Kenya, Shanghai and Dallas, or Clive James Racing Driver, Clive's rightful place does seem to be right there -- on the box, in our homes, and almost one of the family. However you think of him, though, and whatever you remember him for, The Blaze of Obscurity is perhaps Clive's most brilliant book yet. Part Clive James on TV and part Clive James on TV, it tells the inside story of his years in television, shows Clive on top form both then and now, and proves -- once and for all -- that Clive has a way with words ... whatever the medium.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9780330457378
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blaze of Obscurity written by Clive James and published by Picador. This book was released on 2010 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people, Clive James will always be a TV presenter first and foremost, and a writer second - this despite the fact that his adventures with the written word took place before, during and after his time on the small screen. Nevertheless, for those who remember clips of Japanese endurance gameshows and Egyptian soap operas, Clive James reinventing the news or interviewing Hefner and Hepburn, Polanski and Pavarotti, his Postcards from Kenya, Shanghai and Dallas, or Clive James Racing Driver, his rightful place does seem to be right there - on the box, in our homes, and almost one of the family. However you think of him, though, and whatever you remember him for, The Blaze of Obscurity is perhaps his most brilliant book yet. Part Clive James on TV and part Clive James on TV, it tells the inside story of his years in television, shows Clive James on top form both then and now, and proves - once and for all - that he has a way with words... whatever the medium.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393336085
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unreliable Memoirs written by Clive James and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 30 years ago, James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or entirely truthful, only to entertain. Long unavailable in the U.S., "Unreliable Memoirs" is being made available to American readers.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330474375
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Face of Soho written by Clive James and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James. '[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' – Sunday Times It is 1968. Newly married, dressed in the style of the times ('a frenzy of bad judgement'), Clive James is leaving the cloistered world of Cambridge academia and setting his sights once again on the lights of literary London. Luckily for him and us, this crack at the big city would go rather better than last time. Still writing songs, directing sketch shows and trying to break into the movie business, with very mixed success, Clive eventually lands a weekly TV column at the Observer, finds his metier and rapidly becomes a household name. Credited with inventing a genre, Clive turns his attention to the previously critically disregarded medium of television to comment on the entire culture. Through the Seventies and early Eighties, from Fleet Street to Hollywood, from Russian department stores to Paris fashion shows, this is the hilarious, entertaining and honest story of a life lived to the full. North Face of Soho is the fourth book of memoir from Clive James. Continue his story with The Blaze of Obscurity.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216394
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latest Readings written by Clive James and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] collection of Clive James’s essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death” (The Wall Street Journal). In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do,” James moved his library to his Cambridge house, where he would “live, read, and perhaps even write.” James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list. A look at some of James’s old favorites as well as some of his recent discoveries, this book also offers a revealing look at the author himself, sharing his evocative musings on literature and family, and on living and dying. As thoughtful and erudite as the works of Alberto Manguel, and as moving and inspiring as Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture and Will Schwalbe’s The End of Your Life Book Club, this valediction to James’s lifelong engagement with the written word is a captivating valentine from one of the great literary minds of our time. “These essays and poems are death-haunted but radiant with the felt experience of what it means to be alive, even when mortally sick, especially when mortally sick.” —Financial Times “Latest Readings is a plain demonstration that Mr. James remains as learned and as funny as any critic on earth.” —The New York Times

Author : Charles Crocker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vale of Obscurity and Other Poems written by Charles Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles CROCKER (Poet.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vale of Obscurity, the Lavant, and Other Poems written by Charles CROCKER (Poet.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles W. Crocker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The vale of obscurity, The Lavant, and other poems written by Charles W. Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Garry Sharpe-Young
Publisher : Jawbone Press
ISBN 13 : 1906002010
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metal written by Garry Sharpe-Young and published by Jawbone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive, illustrated book about one of the most enduringly popular forms of music. Combining biography, critical analysis, and detailed reference sections, it profiles all the major heavy metal artists as well as a huge selection of other niche acts from around the world. Metal: The Definitive Guide includes new firsthand interviews with many major metal musicians and detailed discographies. It is the definitive metal encyclopedia.The over 300 illustrations in this book encompass fantastic including artist pictures and memorabilia such as posters, ticket stubs, and much more.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330264631
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unreliable Memoirs written by Clive James and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 1981 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography disguised as a novel - Story of childhood - Notes and names of real people have been changed.