The Dreaming Swimmer

The Dreaming Swimmer is a collection of literary essays by poet and TV critic Clive James. ''He writes like a prophet and he can satirise folly in high places with a touch as elegant as Oscar Wilde . . . There isn''t a word wasted'' Daily Mail ''A well-balanced show of wit, intellect and glorious observation'' Sunday Times ''No one wields a joke more punchily than he does. And the wide capacity for warmth towards all sorts of experience - from Billy Connolly to Primo Levi - is impressively exemplary in our culturally divided and divisive times'' Observer ''Very funny . . . breathtakingly good literary essays. Mr James is excellent on television - when he is on it, or reviewing it'' Sunday Telegraph ''James''s hilarity is often a powerful support for his argument, but as well as vintage Jamesian japery there are many excellent things in this collection'' New Statesman & Society

Product details

• Authors: Clive James
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9781447271468
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7146-8
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; HUMOR / Form / Essays, Humour, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Poetry by individual poets, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Modern / 20th Century, Form / Essays