· Scamp Roland Camberton Iain Sinclair 4/5 (49 ratings) Read Download. As well as the elegant squares of Bloomsbury, Ivan Ginsberg walks the decaying back-streets of Soho, haunting cafes and pubs in company with an array of bohemian characters. As he wanders, his hopes of literary success seem further away than ever. "Scamp" by Roland Camberton Slowly but very seriously reading every novel that takes place in Soho London, and "Scamp" by the mysterious Roland Camberton is one of the best. Written and published in , this novel tells the tale of a 30 year old who is pinning a lot of hopes on a new literary journal he wants to start called Scamp. · Scamp, published by Lehmann in , is Roland Camberton's first novel. It is set in Soho, Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia; in the rented rooms, pubs, Author: Iain Sinclair.
Home» England» Roland Camberton» The Scamp. Roland Camberton: The Scamp. This is another novel that came out with a fairly limited print run, had a moderate success and then disappeared. It is now very difficult to find (except in French translation!) which is both sad and somewhat surprising, as it is really a very good novel. They could be set in Soho ('Adrift in Soho' by Colin Wilson) or Kennington ('London Belongs To Me' by Norman Collins), Bloomsbury ('Scamp' by Roland Camberton) or Bethnal Geen ('King Dido' by Alexander Baron). I love some of these books dearly (all of the above) while others I find unforgivably bad (er, 'Saturday' by Ian. Scamp had been out of print for many years when it was rediscovered by Iain Sinclair. Roland Camberton only wrote two books and died at the age of 44, feeling that he had failed at his cherished ambition of being a writer. Scamp is semi-autobiographical and is a wonderful evocation of a shabby, post-Second World War London of seedy cafes, pubs.
Roland Camberton () was a British writer whose real name was Henry Cohen, though his family also knew him as Harry. He won the Somerset Maugham Award, given to authors under the age of 35, for his novel Scamp. The following year, he published Rain on the Pavements. Scamp, published by Lehmann in , is Roland Camberton's first novel. It is set in Soho, Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia; in the rented rooms, pubs, all-night cafés where the author could well have. Scamp: With The John Minton Wrapper by Camberton, Roland. The First UK printing published by John Lehmann in The BOOK is in VERY GOOD++ condition. There is some light pushing to the spine ends. The orange colouring of the spine and the green faux label remain bright. Light toning of the text block and some offsetting to the blank end-papers.
0コメント