North Face of Soho
07 November 2008Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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...
Details
07 November 2008272 pages
9780330481274Imprint: Picador
Reviews
It’s not just that he writes a lot, but that he writes with intense perfectionism, and delivers his gags with honed eleganceSunday Times
I feel I know more about the author after reading it than I gleaned from all of his other books put together. This is a book about hard-earned self-knowledge. What makes it funny is quite how hard the self-knowledge was to earnWilliam Leith, Evening Standard
His proses mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that makes his pages truly shimmerFinancial Times
