Buy this book on-line JAMES**, CLIVE: : The Blaze of Obscurity: THE TV YEARSLONDON.PICADOR/PAN MACMILLAN LTD.,2009. ISBN 9780330457361.
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Reviews for Clive James's fourth volume on memoirs,'North Face of Soho',included several that specifically requested a further volume. Clive James has duly obliged,and here,in all its glory,is 'Unreliable Memoirs V',otherwise known as 'The Blaze of Obscurity'.
For many people,Clive James will always be a TV presenter first and foremost,and a writer second - this despite the fact that his adventures with the written word took place before,during and after his time on the small screen. Nevertheless,for those who remember clips of Japanese endurance game shows and Egyptian soap operas,Clive James reinventing the news or interviewing Hefner and Hepburn,Polanski and Pavarotti,his 'Postcards' from Kenya,Shanghai and Dallas,or Clive James Racing Driver,his rightful place does seem to be right there - on the box,in our homes,and almost one of the family.
However you think of him,though,and whatever you remember him for,'The Blaze of Obscurity' is perhaps his most brilliant book yet.Part Clive James on TV and part Clive James on TV,it tells the inside story of his years in television, shows Clive James on top form both then and now,and proves - once and for all - that he has a way with words . . . whatever the medium.
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