Unreliable memoirs

by Clive James

1980 171 pages eng ★ 3.3 (3 ratings)

Before James Frey famously fabricated his memoir, Clive James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or entirely truthful, only to entertain. In an exercise of literary exorcism, James set out to put his childhood in Australia behind him by rendering it as part…