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Streets Ahead: Life After "City Lights"
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Streets Ahead: Life After "City Lights"
hardcover. First edition. Clean copy. Fine in dust jacket. DJ has minor wear and discolouring to edges but remains very good
Continuing the first volume of his memoirs in "City Lights", Keith Waterhouse records his arrival in Fleet Street in the early 1950s. He evokes an almost Dickensian world of clanking printing works, but one in which he sensed profound social change was soon to manifest itself in an explosion of New Wave books, plays and films like "Lucky Jim", "Look Back in Anger" and his own "Billy Liar". Reliving the excitement of its success, his partnership with Willis Hall, writing for the theatre, screen and television, and their sojourn in Hollywood, Waterhouse creates an impression of an eventful and exhausting ... Read more
Continuing the first volume of his memoirs in "City Lights", Keith Waterhouse records his arrival in Fleet Street in the early 1950s. He evokes an almost Dickensian world of clanking printing works, but one in which he sensed profound social change was soon to manifest itself in an explosion of New Wave books, plays and films like "Lucky Jim", "Look Back in Anger" and his own "Billy Liar". Reliving the excitement of its success, his partnership with Willis Hall, writing for the theatre, screen and television, and their sojourn in Hollywood, Waterhouse creates an impression of an eventful and exhausting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1900
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340632673
SKU
KOG0003886
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
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