Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James

by Clive James

Book Overview

Including his most memorable pieces - his 'Postcard from Rome', his observations on Margaret Thatcher, his insights into Heaney, Larkin and Orwell - this book also contains brilliantly funny... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330481304
• ISBN13: 9780330481304
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Pan MacMillan
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

When Princess Di died, Clive was here to Speak For All Of Us

From Clive's blessed sacred obituary for Princess Diana: "No. It was the first word of that cataclysmic Sunday morning: 'no' pronounced through an ascending sob, the consonant left behind in the chest voice as the vowel climbed into the head voice, the pure wail of lament whereby anyone, no matter how tone deaf, for one terrible moment becomes a singer." Oh the humanity! Clive then goes on to brag about his cherished dinner dates with Di. Seriously. (I swear I'm not making this up.)