The Remake by Clive James

The Remake

by Clive James

Jonathan Cape, 1987, [First Edition], ISBN 0224025155, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription and store stickers to front endpapers, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, sticker to front of jacket (see photographs)

“Things really started to go out of control for Joel Court when Veronica Lilywhite muscled in on his star.  Not that ‘the Smudge’ was his star – no astronomer actually owns them, though they might get lucky enough to lend one a name – but Veronica’s joyless methods were winning the professional contest.  While she arrived at her elegant, seminal discoveries with home-baked maths in infuriating Chinese notebooks, Joel was becoming the David Attenborough of the Asteroids in his own television spot, though he suffered from slight mobility problems in outdoor action shots which the Observer critic claimed made him think the single-frame advance on is VCR had got stuck…”