Latest readings / Clive James.

Author/creator James, Clive, 1939- author.
Format Book
PublicationNew Haven and London : Yale University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionix, 180 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleEssays. Selections
Contents Introduction -- Hemingway in the beginning -- Revisiting Conrad -- Novels in sequence -- Patrick O'Brian and his salty hero -- War leader -- Sebald and the battle in the air -- Phantom flying saucer -- Under Western eyes -- Anthony Powell, time lord -- Treasuring Osbert Lancaster -- American power -- Kipling and the widow-maker -- Speer in Spandau -- Shakespeare and Johnson -- Naipaul's nastiness -- Movie books -- Women in Hollywood -- Extra shelves -- Always Philip Larkin -- Villa America -- Angles on Hitler -- Stephen Edgar, Australian ace -- John Howard extends his reign -- Hemingway at the end -- On wit -- Richard Wilbur's precept -- When creation is perverse -- Conrad's greatest victory -- Coda.
ISBN9780300213195 hardcover
ISBN0300213190 hardcover

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Joyner General Stacks PR9619.3 .J27 A6 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold