Keith Waterhouse SOHO First Edition Signed
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Keith Waterhouse SOHO First Edition Signed
First edition, first print hardback of SOHO by Keith Waterhouse, published by Sceptre/ Hodder & Stoughton A Division of Hodder Headline, London, in 2001. Signed and inscribed by Waterhouse on the title page. With full numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine) with only minor wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (slight creasing to the top edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
In a long and highly successful career, Keith Waterhouse has published thirteen novels, including Billy Liar (which has been filmed and staged) and Our Song (also staged), seven non-fiction books and seven collections of journalism. He has written widely for television, cinema and the theatre, including the highly successful play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell, and writes an award-winning column for the Daily Mail. He has also published two acclaimed memoirs, City Lights and Streets Ahead.
"Except for the City itself, which after working hours is largely deserted, no London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho. Ask the people who live there, like Christine Yardley, drag queen by night and grey-suited accountant by day; or Len Gates, self-appointed Soho historian and bore; or Jenny Wise, former starlet and now resident lush in the New Kismet club; or even Ellis Hugo Bell, wannabe film producer who dreams of moving to LA. Daily, nightly, shift by shift, their numbers are swelled by immigrants flocking in to work, eat, drink and loiter, from kitchen staff to dress designers, hookers to pushers to punters.
Down into this human rabbit warren one evening slips Alex Singer, a student from Leeds in pursuit of his errant girlfriend, whose search takes him from club to pub and into contact with a rich cross-section of Soho life. Twenty-four hours, three deaths, one fire and one mugging later, seduced, traduced and befriended, Alex is on his way to the Soho Ball.
In this fast, funny and superbly crafted novel, the creator of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and Billy Liar draws a vibrant portrait of London's liveliest quarter and its eccentric inhabitants. This is Keith Waterhouse's territory, vividly evoked with his sharp eye for detail and ear for speech, his appreciation of human nature in all its colourful diversity, and his knowledge of Soho past and present. The result a tour de force from one of our most popular and admired writers."
'Quite easily the wittiest and best chronicler of contemporary life' - The Sunday Telegraph
'You stay gripped from the opening paragraph... It crackles with insight about the nature of sexual obsession' - Val Hennessy in the Daily Mail
'He can be angrily oratorical, bluntly rude, soberly informative, boozily clownish, but cannot stop being very, very funny' - Alan Brien in The Sunday Times
245 pages.
ISBN: 0 340 76660 3
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