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Always Unreliable: Memoirs (Paperback)

Clive James

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All three volume of Clive James's sharp and funny autiobiography where first we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With "Falling Towards England", we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates poetical masterpieces he's yet to compose, and worries about his wardrobe. Finally "May Week was in June" sees Clive at Cambridge University, where he enthusiastically involves himself in college life (generally female lives) until May week - not only in June but also a fortnight long - when he gets married. The rest is history, or awaiting a fourth volume of memoirs.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330418812

Clive James

Born Vivian Leopold James in Sydney in 1939, Clive James was educated at the University of Sydney where he was literary editor of Honi Soit and wrote for various university magazines. He was a contemporary of Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes.

After graduating he worked for a time for the Sydney Morning Herald before departing for England in 1962 where he has lived ever since. James attended Cambridge University and received a second degree. After that he has earned his living as a journalist, poet, novelist and reviewer. From 1972 to 1982 he was the respected television critic for The Observer.

James' most famous works form a three-part autobiography (Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England, and May Week was in June). Clive followed his trilogy with Cultural Amnesia, a sprawling, idiosyncratic A-Z of the culture of the 20th century, which seeks to illuminate the works and lives of its greatest thinkers, artists and musicians.