Soho in the Eighties - Couverture rigide

Howse, Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1472914805 ISBN 13 : 9781472914804

Editeur : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Howse is Soho's Boswell... this is an astonishing piece of reportage... It is also a piece of social history that will be vital in future decades for anyone who wants to know what Soho was really like. - Harry Mount, The Tablet

Elegiac... [a] sensitive, well-drawn book - Will Self, Guardian

Opening this book is like walking into a heavy drinkers' pub... Fortunately the Virgil guiding readers through this particular hell is Christopher Howse... Thorough and likeable - --Financial Times

Howse is [...] such a deft sketcher of people that we feel as if we do know them - Daily Telegraph

Honesty is the thread that holds his book together. It WAS like that - Nicholas Lezard, Spectator

In Soho in the Eighties Howse chronicles a doomed world of 'poets, painters, retired prostitutes, actors, criminals, musicians and general layabouts' - --The Times

Like a prose poem by Philip Larkin - Daily Mail

A wonderfully beady and evocative picture of a bohemian society - drunk and dissolute, irresponsible, individualistic, undeceived - --Mail on Sunday

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties, a decade that saw the brilliant flowering of a daily tragi-comedy enacted in pubs like the Coach and Horses or the French and in drinking clubs like the Colony Room. These were places of constant conversation and regular rows fuelled by alcohol. The cast was more improbable than any soap opera. Some were widely known - Jeffrey Bernard, Francis Bacon, Tom Baker or John Hurt. Just as important were the character actors: the Village Postmistress, the Red Baron, Granny Smith. The bite came from the underlying tragedy: lost spouses, lost jobs, pennilessness, homelessness and death. Christopher Howse recaptures the lost Soho he once knew as home, its cellar cafés and butchers' shops, its villains and its generosity. While it lasted, time in those smoky rooms always seemed to be half past ten, not long to closing time. As the author relates, he never laughed so much as he did in Soho in the Eighties.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1472914805
• ISBN 13: 9781472914804
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288