LEWIS, NORMAN — I Came, I Saw an Autobiography

UK, Picador. 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 19cm. Book, In this magnificent autobiography, Norman Lewis recaptures the years which saw him changed from a stammering schoolboy into a writer for whom, after the war, travel became an indispensable stimulant. Just under 500g for post, 391 crisp pp. review >>>> 'One of the most accomplished of all travel writers, a foreign correspondent of distinction, a novelist of standing.. A delightful set of memoirs and a wonderful read' "Daily Telegraph " >> I Came I Saw (Picador 1994) is an extended issue of 'Jackdaw cake' which is subtitled 'An Autobiography', between inverted commas, we might think of the book as 'unreliable memoirs'. The first two parts of the book, about his childhood, are written in a strain of hyperbole, sometimes as pleasingly Welsh as Dylan or Gwyn Thomas. Before we reach the third section, about his pre-war adventures among Arabs, Cubans and Sicilians, we have been astonished by his weird boyhood in Carmarthen and Enfield, where his experiences seem scarcely less bizarre and exotic. <<< If this isn't enough to whet your appetite it may be time for a Bex & a good lie down. Excellent/Excellent.