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Low Life: A Kind of Autobiography
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192 pages
Published
October 7th 1993
by Duckworth Publishing
(first published November 7th 1986)
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A must read book from one of lifes great drunks, the man was totally irreverant and sometimes not nice to be around but he told it like it was warts and all.
A book for the same mood as Tom Waits'
Nighthawks at the Diner
. It isn't as good a work because it's in close-up: this is the barfly talking straight to you, perceptive, boring, unwittingly empathic, slurring, rambling, cruel, candid and funny (and of course the rarer skill of music is absent). Both, whilst hardly shying away from the dark side, make a kind of sullen, messy dejection almost cool - in itself this is company for misery.
Characterful and sometimes objectionable drunks are, perhaps, ...more
Characterful and sometimes objectionable drunks are, perhaps, ...more
Stimulated to read this by the genius acting of Peter O'Toole
Aug 02, 2007
Vikram
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
those marinating in the sea of sarcasm!
Those who don’t know any better would call him a cynic.
But frankly, I take him to be quite a realist.
What this book has is Mr. Bernard’s first hand account of life. As he sees it. Week after week. Most of it, after he’s immersed himself in bottle of a well aged single malt.
And I am left to wonder, what if perhaps, this is as good as it gets!
But frankly, I take him to be quite a realist.
What this book has is Mr. Bernard’s first hand account of life. As he sees it. Week after week. Most of it, after he’s immersed himself in bottle of a well aged single malt.
And I am left to wonder, what if perhaps, this is as good as it gets!
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Jeffrey Bernard was a British journalist, best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in the Spectator magazine, and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He became associated with the louche and bohemian atmosphere that existed in London's Soho district. He was later immortalised in the comical play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse.
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