Bitter Experience Has Taught Me by Nicholas Lezard contains the hilarious, eye-watering and ill-advised misadventures of a middle-aged man behaving badly.
Nicholas Lezard is a weekly contributor to the Guardian's book pages, and writes the 'Down and Out in London' column in the New Statesman, from which this book has been adapted, and bits and bobs for the Independent and the London Evening Standard, et al. He wrote the Guardian's notorious 'Slack Dad' column for years and was, for a decade, the Independent on Sunday's radio critic. But, as he has discovered, nothing lasts for ever.
Irresistibly, invigoratingly funny. -- Howard Jacobson (Lezard's) chronicle of self-inflicted misfortune is outrageously enjoyable ... Anyone who enjoyed Withnail and I would love it. -- Francis Wheen Mail on Sunday He is a master of the comic vignette even (or especially) when consumed with self-pity. From a gruesome visit to a lap-dancing club to a drunken night cricket match in a Marylebone mews, or an encounter with Boris Johnson's sister, Rachel ("I jumped; I think I may even have screamed a little bit"), his elegant excursion into the post-marital emotional wasteland is sweetened with an almost Wodehousian sense of the preposterous. -- Jane Shilling Evening Standard A rueful survivalist's memoir. -- Iain Finlayson The Times
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