Books Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James Paperback, 222 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $13.95 | purchase close overlay Buy Featured Book TitleUnreliable MemoirsAuthorClive James Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Amazon iBooks Independent Booksellers Genres: Nonfiction Biography & Memoir Also by Clive James Latest Readings Opal Sunset The Divine Comedy Poetry Notebook Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email NPR stories about Unreliable Memoirs Author Interviews Embracing A Fictionalized Memoir, 30 Years Later May 19, 2009 • Long before some best-selling memoirs were unmasked as heavily embellished fictions, the writer Clive James embraced the concept. In the preface to his first memoir, which is being rereleased after three decades, he wrote, "Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel." Embracing A Fictionalized Memoir, 30 Years Later Listen · 7:19 7:19 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/104270016/104287177" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Author Interviews Embracing A Fictionalized Memoir, 30 Years Later May 19, 2009 • Long before some best-selling memoirs were unmasked as heavily embellished fictions, the writer Clive James embraced the concept. In the preface to his first memoir, which is being rereleased after three decades, he wrote, "Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel." Embracing A Fictionalized Memoir, 30 Years Later Listen · 7:19 7:19 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/104270016/104287177" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Embracing A Fictionalized Memoir, 30 Years Later Listen · 7:19 7:19 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/104270016/104287177" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
