North Face of Soho
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Narrated by:
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Clive James
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Clive James
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Read by the author, Clive James.
From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James.
It is 1968. Newly married, dressed in the style of the times ('a frenzy of bad judgement'), Clive James is leaving the cloistered world of Cambridge academia and setting his sights once again on the lights of literary London.
Luckily for him and us, this crack at the big city would go rather better than last time.
Still writing songs, directing sketch shows and trying to break into the movie business, with very mixed success, Clive eventually lands a weekly TV column at the Observer, finds his metier and rapidly becomes a household name. Credited with inventing a genre, Clive turns his attention to the previously critically disregarded medium of television to comment on the entire culture. Through the Seventies and early Eighties, from Fleet Street to Hollywood, from Russian department stores to Paris fashion shows, this is the hilarious, entertaining and honest story of a life lived to the full.
North Face of Soho is the fourth book of memoir from Clive James. Continue his story with The Blaze of Obscurity.
©2006 Clive James (P)2006 Macmillan Publishers LtdWhat the critics say
'[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' – Sunday Times