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y separately published work icon North Face of Soho : Unreliable Memoirs Volume 1V single work   autobiography  
Is part of Unreliable Memoirs Clive James , 1980 series - author autobiography (number 4 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 North Face of Soho : Unreliable Memoirs Volume 1V
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'At the very end of May Week Was in June, we left our hero sitting beside the River Cam one beautiful 1968 spring day, jotting down his thoughts in a journal. Newly married and about to leave the cloistered world of Cambridge academia for the racier, glossier life promised by Literary London, he was, so he informed his journal, reasonably satisfied. With his criticism beginning to appear in magazines and newspapers such as the New Statesman, and his poetry published in Carcanet, as well as a play then being performed to rave reviews at the Arts Theatre, James had good reason to be content. But what happened next? This is the question posed, and answered by, North Face of Soho. Intelligent, amusing and provocative - the words apply to the man himself as much as his memoirs'. (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: To Norman North, with thanks.
  • Epigraph: I wonder if I am not yet talking again about myself. Shall I be incapable, to the end, of lying on any other subject? - Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies.
  • Epigraph: An old man remembers everything, but then he forgets that he told you. - Montaigne

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Picador ,       2006 .
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      Extent: 264p.
      Reprinted: 2013
      Note/s:
      • Portrait of Author on backcover.
      ISBN: 9780330444354, 0330444352
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Picador ,       2009 .
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      Extent: 1vp.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 30th 2009
      ISBN: 9780330474375
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— Review of North Face of Soho : Unreliable Memoirs Volume 1V Clive James , 2006 single work autobiography
Up on Stilts Peter Rose , 2006-2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 287 2006-2007; (p. 14-15)
— Review of Things I Didn't Know : A Memoir Robert Hughes , 2006 single work autobiography ; North Face of Soho : Unreliable Memoirs Volume 1V Clive James , 2006 single work autobiography
Books Non-Fiction Terry Oberg , 2006 single work review
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Mentor As Anything Ian Britain , 2006 single work review
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Unreliable Memoirs of a Brilliant Career Stephen Wilks , 2006 single work review
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Autumn of the Expats Geordie Williamson , 2006 single work review
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— Review of North Face of Soho : Unreliable Memoirs Volume 1V Clive James , 2006 single work autobiography
Two Sides to the Story : For Mark Thomas , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 November 2006; (p. 32)
— Review of North Face of Soho : Unreliable Memoirs Volume 1V Clive James , 2006 single work autobiography
Two Sides to the Story : Against Amanda Hooton , 2006 single work review
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— Review of North Face of Soho : Unreliable Memoirs Volume 1V Clive James , 2006 single work autobiography
Parental Guidance Tom Adair , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 October 2006; (p. 42-43)
'I Need Another 40 Years' Peter Wilson , 2006 single work criticism
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Sacks of Nuts Jonathan Baines , 2006 single work correspondence
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