Christopher Howse

Soho in the Eighties (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating glimpse into 1980s Soho by leading journalist and writer Christopher Howse.

In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties, a decade that saw the brilliant flowering of a daily tragi-comedy enacted in pubs like the Coach and Horses or the French and in drinking clubs like the Colony Room.

These were places of constant conversation and regular rows fuelled by alcohol. The cast was more improbable than any soap opera. Some were widely known - Jeffrey Bernard, Francis Bacon, Tom Baker or John Hurt. Just as important were the character actors: the Village Postmistress, the Red Baron, Granny Smith. The bite came from the underlying tragedy: lost spouses, lost jobs, pennilessness, homelessness and death.

Christopher Howse recaptures the lost Soho he once knew as home, its cellar cafés and butchers' shops, its villains and its generosity. While it lasted, time in those smoky rooms always seemed to be half past ten, not long to closing time. As the author relates, he never laughed so much as he did in Soho in the Eighties.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472914828
• Artikelnr.: 54502329

Autorenporträt

Christopher Howse is a writer for the Daily Telegraph, writing about the world's faiths. He also blogs about the English language and is a regular contributor to The Spectator and The Tablet. He is the author of A Pilgrim in Spain (2011), The Train in Spain (2013) and Soho in the Eighties (2018), all published by Bloomsbury Continuum.

Among his other bestselling books for Continuum are Prayers for This Life (2005) and The Assurance of Hope (2006). He is the author of How We Saw It: 150 years of The Daily Telegraph (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations 1 The Coach - and Horses 2 The Trap 3 Low Life 4 The
Office 5 The French 6 Jeffery's Coat 7 Marsh 8 The Asphalt Carpet 9 A
Cabinet of Curiosities 10 The Parish 11 Baby Face Scarlatti 12 The Unknown
Norman 13 A Farson Attack 14 Bank Holiday Bacon 15 Hard Words 16 Heath 17
Soho Sickness 18 Private Eye 19 The Enigma Richard Ingrams 20 The Lavatory
Table 21 Bruce 22 The Red Baron 23 Oliver 24 A Painter Upstairs 25 The Last
Lamplighter Envoi Acknowledgements Bibliography Index