Instead of a Book
Letters to a Friend
$30.52
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
28 March 2022
Summary
Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrated memoirs.
Edited, selected and introduced by Athill, and annotated with her own delightful notes, this collection of those letters reveals a sharply intelligent woman with a keen eye for the absurd, a brilliant turn of phrase and a wicked…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781783787890 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1783787899 |
| Author: | Diana Athill |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 28 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
‘Fascinating and surprising … Athill is a wonderful letter writer - always aware of the need to entertain and beguile the reader … Every page of this book shows that Athill’s eye is as beady as ever’ - Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times‘Encounter again, the sheer joy of her brisk, wry and hugely energetic prose’ - Christina Patterson, Independent
About The Author
Diana Athill
Diana Athill was born in 1917. She helped Andre Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. She is the author of eight volumes of memoirs - Stet, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, Alive, Alive Oh!, A Florence Diary - a collection of letters, Instead of a Book, and a novel, Don’t Look At Me Like That, all published by Granta, as well as a collection of short stories, Midsummer Night in the Workhouse (Persephone Books). In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She died in January 2019.
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