Snakecharmers in Texas by Clive James
Snakecharmers in Texas by Clive James
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Snakecharmers in Texas
Or The Man from Japan or Perfume at Anchorage
by Clive James
Picador, Pan Books, 1989, ISBN 0330305808, paperback
Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, age toned pages (see photographs)
“This latest collection of essays brings the celebrated Jamesian wit to bear on a dazzlingly diverse assembly of personalities, places and burning issues of the eighties. He tells of such wonders of the world as the Statue of Liberty and the Sydney Opera House and visits the Nuremburg stadium littered with crushed Fanta cans where the master race once assembled shoulder to brown shirted shoulder. He reports on the Royal progress through the Californian heartland of Ron and Nancy’s USA and the invasion of Normandy by an ageing army of D-Day veterans out on an anniversary spree. He profiles Barry Manilow in “a detergent-blue suit with diamante trim” and Philip Larkin “wearing his Library Association tie” alongside the seductive Lady Diana Cooper and the searing Bob Geldof and in company with the frost-borne footwork of Torvill and Dean.”
