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A Life Discarded - 148 Diaries Found in a Skip (Paperback)
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A Life Discarded - 148 Diaries Found in a Skip (Paperback)
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Loot Price R210
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Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded
has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his
characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join
him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap
heap. A Life Discarded is a biographical detective story. In 2001,
148 tattered and mould-covered notebooks were discovered lying
among broken bricks in a skip on a building site in Cambridge. Tens
of thousands of pages were filled to the edges with urgent
handwriting. They were a small part of an intimate, anonymous
diary, starting in 1952 and ending half a century later, a few
weeks before the books were thrown out. Over five years, the
award-winning biographer Alexander Masters uncovers the identity
and real history of their author, with an astounding final
revelation. A Life Discarded is a true, shocking, poignant, often
hilarious story of an ordinary life. The author of the diaries,
known only as 'I', is the tragicomic patron saint of everyone who
feels their life should have been more successful. Part thrilling
detective story, part love story, part social history, A Life
Discarded is also an account of two writers' obsessions: of 'I's
need to record every second of life and of Masters' pursuit of this
mysterious yet universal diarist.
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