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Soho in the Eighties
Buch von Christopher Howse
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Christopher Howse
Zusammenfassung
An essential piece of cultural and social history
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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

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AcknowledgementsBibliography Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781472914804
ISBN-10: 1472914805
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Howse, Christopher
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 242 x 161 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Christopher Howse
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2018
Gewicht: 0,58 kg
Artikel-ID: 109697422
Über den Autor
Christopher Howse
Zusammenfassung
An essential piece of cultural and social history
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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

AcknowledgementsBibliography Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781472914804
ISBN-10: 1472914805
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Howse, Christopher
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 242 x 161 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Christopher Howse
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2018
Gewicht: 0,58 kg
Artikel-ID: 109697422
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