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Author James, Clive, 1939-

Title The dreaming swimmer : non-fiction, 1987-1992 / Clive James
Published London : Jonathan Cape, 1992

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 W'PONDS  827.03 J276 A24/D  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 208 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Not drowning but waving -- Somewhere becoming rain -- Last will and testament -- Galway Kinnell's great poem -- The Australian poetic republic -- Your space or mine? -- Fanfare for a big yin -- Sarah Raphael -- We shall be re-released -- He that played the fool -- For Terence Kilmartin -- Pit-bull poodle -- The words count -- Serious brain operation -- Making programmes the world wants -- Preaching to the converted -- On the eve of disaster -- Chip, chip, chip -- Jet-lag in Tokyo -- The light well -- Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini -- Drama in the Soviet Union -- Go back to the opal sunset -- Budge up -- The artificial horizon -- Last night the sea dreamed it was Greta Scacchi -- What happened to Auden -- The incredible two-headed man -- Finally meeting Frankie -- Staying sane aloft -- L.A. lore -- News fantasy -- Sidney Carton's double life
Analysis Australia
English prose
Notes Includes index
Also issued online
Subject James, Clive, 1939-
Australian wit and humor.
Australian essays.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Television programs -- Great Britain.
LC no. 93158063
ISBN 0224036025