A fascinating quest for one of London's legendary characters
Keiron Pim is aged 38, married with three young daughters and lives in Norwich, where he was for a decade the literary editor of the Eastern Daily Press newspaper before leaving to concentrate on writing books. He is the author of The Bumper Book of Dinosaurs (Square Peg) and he edited and introduced Into the Light- the Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Meir of Norwich, the first translated edition of England's only major medieval Hebrew poet.
You’ll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won’t be
able to stop.
*Guardian, Book of the Year*
The rock'n'roll legend of David Litvinoff is given its definitive
account. A considerable work of detection and human sympathy
unpicking old myths and making them new.
*Iain Sinclair*
This surely has the most startling beginning of any biography to be
published this year… Vivid, engrossing… Pim gives an all too
graphic picture of the seedy 1950s… He is compassionate and humane
at every moment. His prose is always careful and stylish.
*Guardian*
Blending pop culture, social history and interviews with raddled
survivors, Pim reconstructs every scene in Litvinoff’s twisted
history… Jumpin’ Jack Flash provides the missing piece of Swinging
London’s social jigsaw.
*Literary Review*
Blending pop culture, social history and interviews with raddled
survivors, Pim reconstructs every scene in Litvinoff’s twisted
history… Jumpin’ Jack Flash provides the missing piece of Swinging
London’s social jigsaw.
*Literary Review*
Fascinating biography… Pim has a thorough knowledge of his subject
and his milieu and is painstaking in his research… Against the
odds, Keiron Pim has written a very good book about a very bad
man.
*Times Literary Supplement*
A captivating and prodigiously well-researched account of that
legendary 1960s London sub-world where criminality and bohemianism
met head-on.
*D. J. Taylor*
Pim’s account of this extraordinary character is a magisterial work
of scholarship.
*New Statesman*
Revelatory... The impressive list of character references in this
extraordinary book gives some indication of just how singular a
creature [David Litvinoff] was, and the mind-boggling diversity of
the worlds in which he moved.
*Daily Telegraph*
Keiron Pim has grafted long and hard to separate the facts from the
heady fictions… Pim does a great job of bringing the era and some
of its most colourful characters to life.
*Independent*
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