From the Publisher:
First published in Britain in 1987, "Playing for Time" now adds some priceless English hilarity to American shelves. It tells of how a bumbling, shy, endearingly inconsequent, and rather Wodehousian young chap--i.e., Jeremy Lewis when young--found a refuge from real life in the "curious, Edenic" limbo of Dublin's Trinity College, where for four years he "applied" himself to the curriculum of idling, boozing, snoozing, and related subjects. Lewis has an uncommonly keen eye for his own feckless oddity back then, and his rich stock of comic anecdotes keeps the laughs coming.
About the Author:
Jeremy Lewis worked for many years in publishing after leaving Trinity College, Dublin, in 1965. He was a director of Chatto & Windus for ten years, and the deputy editor of the London Magazine from 1990 to 1994. A freelance writer and editor since 1989, he has been the commissioning editor of the Oldie since 1997, and the editor-at-large of the Literary Review since 2004. He has written two volumes of autobiography - Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits (both now available in Faber Finds'), and a third, Grub Street Irregular was published in 2008. He has written biographies of Cyril Connolly, Tobias Smollett and Allen Lane, and a book about the Greene family - Graham Greene's siblings and first cousins - Shades of Greene.
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