The Crystal Bucket

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Jonathaan Cape
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1981
Edition: Reprint

Description: 238 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. This Book Is A Second Selection From Clive James' Weekly Television Column, Which Is Required Sunday Reading For Over A Million People In Britain And Has Avid Followers In Even The Foreign Countries Where Few Of The Programmes Mr James Writes About Are Ever Screened.

Publishers Description: His contribution to the art and enjoyment of TV criticism over the past ten years has been immense. His work is deeply perceptive, often outrageously funny and always compulsively readable.Thus the judges of the British Press Awards, in naming Clive James Critic of the Year for 1981. The Crystal Bucket offers a further selection of his inimitable visions before midnight ...C.J. didnt get where he is today just by being funny. He is humane, liberal and compassionate ... What he writes is always pertinent and always witty ... We own him a deep debt of gratitude. —Gavin Ewart, ListenerFew critics have a more unerring ear for woolliness and doubletalk or a more scathing and entertaining way of dealing with it. —Lesley Garner, Good HousekeepingHe is one of the most remarkable figures in British cultural life at the a poet and gifted literary critic who is also genuinely liked by the mass audience. —Michael Mason, London Review of BooksOne of the few columnists who make you laugh aloud ... if there were angels he would be on their and that would certainly include Charlies Angels. —Melvyn Bragg, Sunday Times

ISBN: 0224018906