It's like that throughout – the standard of TV-show interviewing is abysmal. One would do better with tailor's dummies. Harold Robbins is on the same programme; in a green velvet suit, a frilly green shirt, doe-eyes, tanned, ...
... admiration for the Roy Campbell–Hemingway attitude of revolt.1 And touchy about that admiration, which I mildly mocked. He told me a mass of stories about the school – its atmosphere seems decidedly strange, a constant intriguing ...
Says, because of us Gerald gets more sausage in a month than Jimmy Dean sells in a year. And he won't shoot us a few scripts. Can you believe that?" Candace nodded. "Sure I can. You and Billy think there's nothing to life, ...
A major literary landmark: this is the first-hand account of Fowles's road to fame and fortune, as recorded in the journal he began as a student at Oxford in the late 1940s and continued to keep faithfully over the next half century.
The Journals
The Journals: 1966-1990
The Journals
Commencing with his final year at Oxford, this first volume of John Fowles' journals chronicles the year he spent lecturing at a university in France; his experiences teaching on the...