Falling Towards England : Unreliable Memoirs II - Clive James

Falling Towards England

Unreliable Memoirs II

By: Clive James

Paperback | 7 November 2008 | Edition Number 1

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The second instalment of his famed unreliable memoirs, Falling Towards England sees Clive James set sail for London – a long way from the acclaimed author, poet and broadcaster he would one day become . . .

'A comic triumph' – Ian Hamilton, London Review of Books


Waving goodbye to Sydney, Clive James arrives in 1960s England with nothing much besides the clothes on his back, in search of fame and fortune. Idealistic and uncompromising, if short on cash, he plans to get a low-paying menial job by day and compose poetical masterpieces by night. London is beginning to swing, but our hero is flat broke. The menial job proves elusive, with steady employment as hard to find as a room of his own.

In a succession of more or less unsatisfactory digs, which include a bedsit, a barge, and a large paper bag, he attempts to stay warm, knuckle down, practise the Twist, plan those poetical masterpieces and improve his unsatisfactory wardrobe. Reflecting on these years, Clive is at his erudite and hilarious best.

Falling Towards England is the second book of memoir from Clive James. Continue his story with May Week Was In June.

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