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Somewhere Towards the End - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Somewhere Towards the End - A Memoir (Paperback)
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List price R403
Loot Price R373
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Hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" (Sunday Telegraph), this book
reflects candidly, sometimes with great humor, on the condition of
being old. Charming readers, writers, and critics alike, the memoir
won the Costa Award for Biography and made Athill, then ninety-one,
a surprising literary star. Diana Athill was 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, Athill made her reputation
for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs.
Writing 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 and occasionally the gains that age brings, the
wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Distinguished by
"remarkable intelligence...[and the] easy elegance of her prose"
(Daily Telegraph), this short, well-crafted book, hailed as "a
virtuoso exercise" (Sunday Telegraph) presents an inspiring work
for those hoping to flourish in their later years.
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