The Blaze of Obscurity by Clive James - ISBN: 9780330457378
Paperback
TV icon’s memoir: Wit, wisdom, and words behind the screen.

The Blaze of Obscurity

The TV Years

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2010

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Summary

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 Dri…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780330457378
ISBN-10:0330457373
Author:Clive James
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:1 October 2010
Weight:240g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 21mm
Series:Unreliable Memoirs
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Critics Review

Clive James is an intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as a wit.

Clive James is an intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as well as a wit. * Observer *

About The Author

Clive James

Clive James is the author of more than 20 books, including four previous volumes of autobiography (Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, May Week was in June and North Face of Soho), collections of literary and television criticism, essays, travel writing, verse and novels. 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.

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