May Week Was In June
More Unreliable Memoirs
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 June 1991
Summary
Arriving in Cambridge on my first day as an undergraduate, I could see nothing except a cold white October mist. At the age of twenty-four I was a complete failure, with nothing to show for my life except a few poems nobody wanted to publish in book form.
Falling Toward England - the second volume of Clive James’s Unreliable Memoirs - was meant to be the last. Thankfully, that’s not the case. In Unreliable Memoirs III, Clive details his time at Cambridge, including film reviewing, wri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330315227 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0330315226 |
| Author: | Clive James |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1991 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 127mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Unreliable Memoirs |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Nobody writes like Clive James; he has invented a style.
Nobody writes like Clive James; he has invented a style. * Spectator *
He turns phrases, mixes together cleverness and clownishness, and achieves a fluency and a level of wit that make his pages truly shimmer … May Week Was In June is vintage James. * Financial Times *
Clive James
Clive James is the author of more than thirty books. As well as his memoirs, he has published essays, literary and television criticism, travel writing, verse and novels. As a television performer he has appeared regularly for both the BBC and ITV, most notably as writer and presenter of the Postcard series of travel documentaries. He helped to found the independent television production company Watchmaker. 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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