Brilliant Creatures
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
London's media world has never been so wickedly skewered as it is in Clive James's debut novel, Brilliant Creatures — a razor-sharp satirical comedy set among the glamorous, self-important denizens of 1980s publishing, television, and literary society. The novel chronicles the misadventures of a cast of ambitious, witty, and thoroughly flawed characters caught in a web of romantic entanglements, professional rivalries, and social one-upmanship, all orbiting the magnetic centre of a celebrity-obsessed London. James — already celebrated as one of the finest critical minds and prose stylists of his generation — brings his trademark intellectual wit and forensic social observation to fiction, constructing a narrative that is as analytically precise as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Brilliant Creatures sits proudly in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, dissecting the vanities of the chattering classes with affectionate contempt. For readers who relish satire with genuine intelligence behind it, this novel delivers a world that is irresistible in its absurdity — and uncomfortably familiar.
Author: Clive James
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
London's media world has never been so wickedly skewered as it is in Clive James's debut novel, Brilliant Creatures — a razor-sharp satirical comedy set among the glamorous, self-important denizens of 1980s publishing, television, and literary society. The novel chronicles the misadventures of a cast of ambitious, witty, and thoroughly flawed characters caught in a web of romantic entanglements, professional rivalries, and social one-upmanship, all orbiting the magnetic centre of a celebrity-obsessed London. James — already celebrated as one of the finest critical minds and prose stylists of his generation — brings his trademark intellectual wit and forensic social observation to fiction, constructing a narrative that is as analytically precise as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Brilliant Creatures sits proudly in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, dissecting the vanities of the chattering classes with affectionate contempt. For readers who relish satire with genuine intelligence behind it, this novel delivers a world that is irresistible in its absurdity — and uncomfortably familiar.