Unreliable Memoirs

This autobiography recounts Clive James's childhood and youth in postwar Sydney, from a fatherless household and schoolyard showing-off through university and the voyage that takes him toward London. He describes comic humiliations, radio and cinema, first jobs, and the gap between the figure he played and the one he remembers. Family, teachers, and friends are drawn as material for stories he admits he may have improved. The book stops as adult life abroad begins. It is a comic memoir of growing up in Australia, not a history of the period and not a later career survey.

Bound in yellow cloth blocked on cover in red and black with an image. Yellow endpapers. Red slipcase.