Close to the Edge

My Autobiography

Jim Davidson

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Ebury Press
15 August 2002

Television; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

A new updated paperback edition of Jim Davidson's extraordinary Close To The Edge in which he bares his soul and takes us through his best and worst

times

'People will be surprised by the honesty of this book. There will be no holds barred'

Jim Davidson. Somehow the last decade saw Jim Davidson transformed from foul-mouthed stand-up comic to being the face of BBC light entertainment, Chairman of the British Forces Foundation and close friend of Prince Charles.

Close To The Edge details this remarkable change in a fresh and deeply intimate style.

Jim comes clean about himself, his actions and his motives.

From the times he spent in the rehabilitation clinic to the full story of the break up of his four marriages, he re-evaluates his life in a critical and self-aware manner - making Close to The Edge an entertaining and unusually powerful autobiography.

By: Jim Davidson
Imprint: Ebury Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 230g
ISBN: 9780091883126
ISBN 10: 0091883121
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 August 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jim Davidson was born in 1953, the youngest of five children and was christened Cameron. Having been married 4 times, Jim is currently single and lives in Surrey. His career was launched in 1976 when he won New Faces. In 1979 the Jim Davidson Show hit our screens and ran for 5 years. Success continued throughout the '80s and in the '90s he has become the face of BBC light entertainment, presenting Big Break and taking over from Bruce Forsyth on the Generation Game.

Reviews for Close to the Edge: My Autobiography

This collection is an excellent overview of Goldman's early years and is recommended for larger public and all academic libraries. Library Journal A real achievement and a major contribution to the study of the American left. [This collection] will, one hopes, inspire scholars, teachers, and undergraduate and graduate students to explore the history of that struggle between free speech and free assembly, on the one hand, and the combined forces of power, prudery, and patriotism, on the other. Francis G. Couvares, Labor History (Goldman's career) as her adoptive country's most notorious anarchist [is] richly displayed in these two volumes of documentary history . -Steve Fraser, London Review of Books, 26th Feb 09