The best essays of Clive James, culled from 30 years of prose. There are essays on Margaret Thatcher, Seamus Heaney, George Orwell and Philip Larkin, essays on the meaning of Australia and on what it means to be a TV critic, and his "Postcard from Rome".
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Clive James' Reliable Essays: The Best Of Clive James
December 31, 2002, Picador
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0330481304 9780330481304
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Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James
Publish date unknown, Picador
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Machine generated contents note: Four Essays on Philip Larkin 25
1. Somewhere becoming rain 25
2. On Larkin's Wit 35
3. Don Juan in Hull 44
4. An Affair of Sanity 66
Evelyn Waugh's Last Stand 72
Charles Johnston's Catacomb Graffiti 82
Nabokov's Grand Folly 97
How Montale Earned His Living 104
On Seamus Heaney 114
The Poetry of Edmund Wilson 120
WORLD-BESOTTED TRAVELLER
Postcard from Rome 135
Mrs T in China 144
The Dragon Lady Flies East 144
The Great Leap Homeward 153
THE AURA OF CELEBRITY
Mailer's Marilyn 167
Approximately in the Vicinity of Barry Humphries 183
Germaine Greer: Getting Marridd Later 197
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Masses 205
NIGHT, FOG AND FORGETFULNESS
Prime Levi's Last Will and Testament 219
Hitler's Unwitting Exculpator 234
Postscript to Goldhagen 257
HOME AND AWAY
Your Space or Mine? 265
Up Here from Down There 276
ALMOST LITERATURE
The Sherlockologists 293
Raymond Chandler 304
PRACTICALLY ART
Souls on Ice: Torvill and Dean 319
Pictures in Silver 330.
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