A memoir decades ahead of its time - sharp, funny, and quietly radical, from one of the 20th century’s most overlooked literary voices.
A book decades ahead of its time, And So Did I established a new model for the memoir, one built from moments of intense observation, candid self-reflection, courageous honesty, and irrepressible humor. It opens with the comedy of a man being struck by an automobile and walking away unscathed and cascades through a year's worth of incidents and encounters that reveal Whitaker's resilient spirit and fine-honed understanding of people, their quirks, weaknesses, and charms.
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"It is nothing if not a work of art. The excellence of And So Did I resides in its spontaneity, its distinguished and vivid imaginativeness, its delicious sureness in detail, its intimacy, its atmosphere."
" - The Listener
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"It is delightful. Not an autobiography, not quite a journal, it combines in a most original way the qualities of both."
" - New Statesman
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"A sane and lovely book."
" - The Evening Standard
