Brian Glanville
The Comic
"I stood up at the Alcoholics'Anonymous Meeting and told them,'My name's Johnny Lucas and I'm an alcoholic'. And they told me they'd let me know." Highly praised on first publication, by the likes of Eric Morecambe and Frankie Howerd, "The Comic" was tipped for that year's Booker Prize.It delves, deeper than almost any other novel, into the world of the stand-up comedian, the working men's club and Variety Theatre, and the hell that awaits when success turns sour.
Author's Introduction to the Smaller Sky edition
More about Brian Glanville, novelist and football writer in preparation
