{"product_id":"9780712309646","title":"City Lights and Streets Ahead: Memoirs of Keith Waterhouse","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo coincide with the release of Keith Waterhouse’s previously unpublished autobiography, \u003ci\u003eHow to Live to Be 22\u003c\/i\u003e, the British Library brings together in a single volume two collections of memoirs by Waterhouse, \u003ci\u003eCity Lights\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStreets Ahead\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e           \u003cbr\u003eWaterhouse thought his first book of memoirs, \u003ci\u003eCity Lights\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in 1994, was the best book he ever wrote. Here he recalls his childhood and adolescence in soot-blackened, tramcar-rattling Leeds, and describes—with his customary wit, warmth, and eye for detail—the earliest events that shaped him as a writer. A magical, touching book that is also an elegy for England’s past, \u003ci\u003eCity Lights \u003c\/i\u003eis a delightful evocation of childhood and youth, and perhaps the most important chapter in Waterhouse’s lifelong love affair with cities.\u003cbr\u003e           \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStreets Ahead\u003c\/i\u003e takes up where \u003ci\u003eCity Lights \u003c\/i\u003eleft off, in 1952, when Waterhouse arrived in Fleet Street in London. These were the days of long, liquid lunches, of eccentric and inspired newspapermen, and of foreign assignments. It was also when Waterhouse published his second and most famous novel, \u003ci\u003eBilly Liar. \u003c\/i\u003eWaterhouse tells of his newfound fame, including his Hollywood days with Hitchcock and Disney and Hollywood nights with the Rolling Stones. \u003ci\u003eStreets Ahead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e i\u003c\/i\u003es a lyrical and funny memoir of an eventful, euphoric era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"British Library, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028404617456,"sku":"9780712309646","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780712309646_p0.jpg?v=1763623042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780712309646","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}