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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Ammonites & Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
Author: LIVELY PENELOPE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/09/2014
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
In this powerful and compelling ‘view from old age’, Penelope Lively, at eighty, reports back on what she finds. There are meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us. There are intriguing examinations of key personal as well as historical moments she has lived through and her thoughts on her own bookishness – both as reader and writer. Lastly, she turns to six treasured possessions to speak eloquently about who she is and where she’s been – fragments of memories from a life well lived.
‘Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived.’ Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 9780241966983
Pages: 240