Synopsis
Adding to an already unforgettable collection of comic brilliance, Clive James followed-up Visions Before Midnight and The Crystal Bucket with Glued To The Box – the third and final collection of his hilarious, inimitable columns of TV criticism and a time capsule of 1970s/1980s entertainment.
'One of the few columnists who makes you laugh aloud' – Melvyn Bragg, Sunday Times
In 1982...
Details
06 April 2017100 pages
9781509832408Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The funniest writer in BritainSunday Times
Along with its two predecessors, it will stand as a once-only critical phenomenon: ten years' worth of high intelligence and witLondon Review of Books
A third glittering selectionJulian Barnes
James reinvented the style of TV criticism. Described by Sheridan Morley as "far and away the funniest writer in regular Fleet Street employment", James was the first critic to prostrate himself before the flow of the medium in all its manifestations. He admitted to himself and his readers, that for most of us the frenzies commentary of Murray Walker and the uneasy elocution of Harry Carpenter are as important a part of TV as the most earnest offering from "Play for Today" or "The South Bank Show". They do not, of course, hope to be regarded as "art" but they are part of the same experienceTime Out
