Playing For Time

by Jeremy Lewis

Pitching and rolling on his first crossing of the Irish Sea, Jeremy Lewis fell instantly in love with a handsome, strong-featured girl in a corduroy coat, with auburn hair and an exciting-looking bosom--and remained so for the next eighteen months.

Having singularly failed to impress either himself or his employers in the world of advertising, he was now bound for Trinity College, Dublin, to embark upon an education that had little to do with the history course for which he had enrolled. Lured by the garrulous, genial charms of Dublin pubs, the inimitable characters with which the city overflows, the wild and beautiful countryside--it is little wonder academic aspirations began to either away.

With a sharp eye for the absurd and a fond sympathy for life's eccentrics, Jeremy Lewis treats us to uproarious tales from his time in Dublin in the sixties, tells of the wild Irish islands, mad escapades in Europe and America, life amidst the snares and delusions involved in growing up in middle-class England in the 1950s, and of his ever unrequited passion for the ever unattainable ffenella...

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Jeremy Lewis spent much of his life working in publishing. He is the author of two highly-praised volumes of autobiography, Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits, and of biographies of Cyril Connolly and Tobias Smollett.