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Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
In this sequel to Costa Biography Award Winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes vivaciously, poignantly, and with extraordinary clarity about what really matters in the end, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties. Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no ...Show more
Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill reflects on what it is like to be in her nineties, and on the moments in her life which have risen to the surface and sustai ...Show more
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and a passionate zest for life. This intimate corresponden ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
With skill and candour, the acclaimed London book editor, who turned 90 in December 2007, tells the story of what it means to be old.Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forge ...Show more
Stet - An editor's life by Diana Athill
27.99 NZD
49.95 (43% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature. With inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a long life in publishing, including reflections on editing writers such as Jean Rhys and Gitta Sereny.
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