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Hardcover • 2015 • English

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About the book

In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do,” James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would “live, read, and perhaps even write.” James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list. A look at some of James’s old favorite...Show more

Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Biography and non-fiction prose
Literature: history and criticism

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9780300213195

Published year

2015

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English

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Hardcover

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