The Blaze of Obscurity

London: Picador, 2009 9780330457361. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Compete numberline. Fine/Fine. DW is NOT price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original cloth hardcover, 325 pages. "Clive James on TV" is now in book form. For many people, Clive James will always be a TV presenter first and foremost, and a writer second - this despite the fact that his adventures with the written work took place before, during and after his time on the small screen. Nevertheless, for those who remember clips of Japanese endurance gameshows and Egyptian soap operas, Clive reinventing the news or interviewing Hefner and Hepburn, Polanski and Pavarotti, Clive's 'Postcards' from Kenya, Shanghai and Dallas, or Clive James Racing Driver, Clive's rightful place does seem to be right there - on the box, in our homes, and almost one of the family. However you think of him, though, and whatever you remember him for, "The Blaze of Obscurity" is perhaps Clive's most brilliant book yet. Part "Clive James on TV", it tells the inside story of his years in television, shows Clive on top form both then and now, and proves - once and for all - that Clive has a way with words...whatever the medium." .