Kindred Spirits : Adrift in Literary London Paperback / softback
by Jeremy Lewis
Paperback / softback
Description
The humour of self-deprecation is peculiarly English.
Few people do it better than Jeremy Lewis. His first two autobiographical volumes - Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits - are being reissued in Faber Finds to coincide happily with his third volume - Grub Street Irregular - being published by HarperCollins. The second volume of Jeremy Lewis's wonderfully entertaining autobiography sees him starting out, with a mixture of diffidence and self-professed incompetence, on a career in publishing.
Along the way we see him tucking into cod and chips with Jane and Geoffrey Grigson, drinking tea with Kingsley Amis and retsina with Patrick Leigh-Fermor.
When reviewing this book, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson called it 'The funniest book I have ever read about publishing...this is not merely a hugely entertaining book, but an important one'.
That judgment still stands.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:17/07/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571244287
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:17/07/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571244287