Book description
‘I was never alone except in the toilet, where I soon found that
locking myself into a cubicle was not much protection from hearing
myself talked about by young men standing at urinals. (“Jesus, he’s
looking rough.” “And it’s only Monday.”)
Reviews for Clive James’s fourth volume of memoirs, North Face of Soho
, included several that specifically requested a further volume; Clive
James duly obliged and here, in all its glory, is ‘Unreliable Memoirs
V’, otherwise known as The Blaze
of Obscurity
.
Perhaps his most brilliant book yet, The Blaze of Obscurity
tells the inside story of his years in television: part Clive James
on TV
and part Clive James on TV, it shows Clive James on top form - both
then and now.
‘In the case of many people who attempt an autobiography even a single
volume is one too many . . . In the case of Clive James, the volumes now
in existence are too few. If the final tally puts him up there with
Marcel Proust, so much the better’ Financial Times
Clive James is the author of more than thirty books, including four
previous volumes of autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards
England, May Week was in June and North Face of Soho. 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.
