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May Week Was in June

Part of the Unreliable Memoirs series

Clive goes to Pembroke College, Cambridge to study. Here he joined the Footlights review, participated in film reviewing, wrote poetry and fell in love on several occasions. The book also details his period as a literary editor of Granta, the articles he wrote for The New Statesman and the period when he took Footlights to the Edinburgh Fringe. Then during May week, which was not only in June but was two weeks long, he married. This book follows Unreliable Memoirs and Falling Towards England. Clive James has published two novels, Brilliant Creatures and The Remake, four books of literary criticism and four mock-epic poems.

Subject
biography
Genre
humor
Setting
20th centuryenglandaustraliacambridge
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 245 pages

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