Somewhere Towards the End A Memoir

Name: Somewhere Towards the End A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780393067705

ISBN-10: 039306770X

ISBN-13: 9780393067705

Edition: 2009

Authors: Diana Athill

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An esteemed memoirist examines aging with the grace ofElegy for Irisand the wry irreverence ofI Feel Bad About My Neck. Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Diana Athill has made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Now in her ninety-first year, "entirely untamed about both old and new conventions" (Literary Review) and freed from any of the inhibitions that even she may have once had, Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old--the losses…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/5/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English