The Blaze Of Obscurity. The TV Years

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador/Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 325 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 gameshows and Egyptian soap operas, Clive reinventing the news or interviewing Hefner and Hepburn, Polanski and Pavarotti, Clives Postcards from Kenya, Shanghai and Dallas, or "Clive James Racing Driver," Clives 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 Clives 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 on top form both then and now, and proves -- once and for all -- that Clive has a way with words . . . whatever the medium.

ISBN: 9780330511056