London Lover: My Weekend that Lasted Thirty Years

Clancy Sigal's memoir of his adventures in postwar London is described as "exuberant, breathless, and extremely funny." The book follows his journey from homelessness to therapy with R. D. Laing, and his encounters with the CND and Lessing. Sigal's character is portrayed as funny, hapless, warm-hearted, and self-professed "crazy American."

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

An exuberant, breathless sprint through London in the fifties, sixties, and seventies… Its bright, boisterous, and extremely funny. Tatler Clancy's scapegrace adventures are described with so much vitality and scabrous wit that you feel as charmed as one of his serial conquests… Marvellous Spectator If you're searching for something to keep you on the edge of your sun lounger this summer, look no further. Daily Mail If Fielding's Tom Jones were alive in postwar England, he might be Clancy Sigal, the American author of this restlessly curious memoir. Honest and devious, faithful and lustful, a mass of plucky contradictions, Clancy first arrived in London in 1957. He was broke, homeless, and, according to his FBI file, a dangerous 'subversive. Over the next three decades, Clancy was to wander the soot-stained streets of London, devouring as much of life as he could offer him. From the birth of the CND and his affair with Lessing, to therapy with R. D. Laing and wondering whether the entire world was on acid, Clancy details it all to illuminating effect. Underneath all of these encounters is the character of Clancy himself: funny, hapless, warm-hearted, and a self-professed 'crazy American. Call it luck, charm, or sheer lack of good sense, he escaped with a cracking good story.

Weight: 208g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408885819