Description
| Product ID: | 9780330315227 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Unreliable Memoirs |
| Title: | May Week Was In June |
| Subtitle: | More Unreliable Memoirs |
| Authors: | Author: Clive James |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Autobiography: writers, Memoirs, Humour, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, Humour, Cambridgeshire, c 1960 to c 1970 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Leaving London behind, the beloved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James heads to university in this third instalment of his hilarious, heartfelt memoirs. <p><b>It is the middle of the Swinging Sixties, and Clive James doesn't have much to show for it. <i>May Week Was In June</i> is the third hilarious, tender instalment of memoir from the iconic author, poet and broadcaster.<br><br>'Nobody writes like Clive James' – <i>Spectator</i></b><br><br>Arriving at Cambridge University in a cold October in 1964, the young Clive James has yet to find a footing in the literary world. His move from Sydney and three years of hand-to-mouth existence in London has produced nothing but a handful of unpublished poems. Pembroke College Cambridge offers a way out, if not up . . .<br><br>Ignoring the curriculum, he throws himself into writing songs, performing and film reviewing. “If something was irrelevant, I could do it.” He takes Footlights to the Edinburgh Fringe, writes for the New Stateman and works on <i>Expresso Drongo</i>, arguably the worst film ever screened at the NFT . He finds a lifelong passion in criticism, continues his poetry, falls in love with Italian art and eventually, in May Week, he marries. These are the years that formed the man Clive James – told with his trademark erudition and humour.<br><br><b><i>May Week Was In June</i> is the third book of memoir from Clive James. Continue his story with <i>North Face of Soho</i>.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-11-07 |
