- Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; n.e. edition (27 Sep 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140570160
- ISBN-13: 978-0140570168
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 324,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a most entertaining book all the reminiscences have the peculiar resonance associated with Sohos greatest Bohemian, but the stories are in equal measure entertaining funny sad and all excpetionally well written. The army stories are all good but a tad dated and it is interesting that these ones were the ones that made his literary name. As good as these is Five Finger Exercises, dating from before the war, and rereading this work stemming from 1940's it is interesting to note how stuffy British culteral mores of the time wereand how disarmingly accuratley he captured them on the page. Maclaren-Ross was an exceedingly interesting and complex man, a man ahead of his time in many ways, strong individualistic and true to himself, a dashing dandy in resplendent camel-hair coat carnation in the buttonhole of his white corduroy jacket, these admirable qualities shine in these memoirs. Its is a shame that he never completed it and that more of his work is not in print. Also reccomended is the excellent new biography by Paul Willetts which gives a great insight into this Soho Legend as famous for being Julian Maclaren-Ross the Soho dandy ( model of many a writers Soho tales)as he was as a leading litereary figure of the day.A tall handsome man of many and varied gifts. He deserves a far higher recognition that he has enjoyed hitherto and for us readers the challenge is to track down his out of print works which are sure to be marvels.
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