Clive James' Reliable Essays: The Best Of Clive James - Brossura

James, Clive

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ISBN 10: 0330481304 ISBN 13: 9780330481304

Casa editrice: Picador, 2002

Riassunto

Including his 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. `He has widened the "tonal range" of criticism, permitting it to be both sober and skittish, learned and lewd, rhetorically rambunctious and epigrammatically concise . . . an intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as a wit' Peter Conrad, Observer `His writing is impeccably witty, flexible and urbane . . . immensely enjoyable to read. It's a pleasure to see the metropolitan critic back in action' Christopher Taylor, Sunday Telegraph `He can both get to the heart of a subject and raise a laugh' Nicholas Lezard, Sunday Times

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Descrizione del libro:

Introduced by Julian Barnes, Reliable Essays is the definitive choice of Clive James’s essays, selected from thirty years of spellbinding prose.

L'autore:

Clive James is the author of more than forty books. As well as essays, he has 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. His popular Radio 4 series A Point of View has been published in volume form. He has also published several poetry collections, a verse commentary of Proust, Gate of Lilacs, and a translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0330481304
• ISBN 13: 9780330481304
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 367