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By Clive James

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About the book

An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death 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 c...Show more

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

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9780300223552

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Yale University Press

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2016

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