A Clip of Steel: A Picaresque Autobiography
by Thomas Blackburn
On This Page
Description
'The poet Thomas Blackburn faced his inner darkness with a savage courage and wrote exquisite poetry exploring the demons which haunted him. This memoir is painfully honest about those demons, yet it also reveals Thomas Blackburn as a master of prose. "A Clip of Steel" is one of the great literary memoirs of the 20th century.' - Bernard Cornwell 'A fascinating contribution to the genre of father-son memoirs that stretches from Edmund Gosse to Philip Roth: wry, candid, and at times hilarious, show more even when show lessMembers
- Recently Added By
Lists
On Books
70 works; 1 member
Author Information
17+ Works 42 Members
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 6
- Popularity
- 3,045,320
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
