{"product_id":"9780330481274-north-face-of-soho","title":"North Face of Soho","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore Unreliable Memoirs\u003cbr\u003eAs graduation leads him back to London, author, poet and broadcaster Clive James hits the big time in this fourth instalment of his warm, humorous memoirs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Fleet Street to the television, \u003ci\u003eNorth Face of Soho\u003c\/i\u003e is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' – \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuckily for him and us, this crack at the big city would go rather better than last time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStill 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 \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorth Face of Soho\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth book of memoir from Clive James. Continue his story with \u003ci\u003eThe Blaze of Obscurity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57854052073846,"sku":"9780330481274","price":9.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36882317.jpg?v=1778564366","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780330481274-north-face-of-soho","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}