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Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
Penelope Lively
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Description for Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
Paperback. Features meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph 'Clever and poignant . . . there is much to enjoy. This is Lively at her best' Sunday Express 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 ... Read more
'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph 'Clever and poignant . . . there is much to enjoy. This is Lively at her best' Sunday Express 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241966983
SKU
V9780241966983
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99-26
About Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her ... Read more
Reviews for Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
Ammonites & Leaping Fish is powerfully consoling. Lively is certainly sagacious, her words careful and freighted. But there is girlishness here, too. Things still catch her eye, her attention. New books. Old stories. Another day for the taking
Rachel Cooke
Observer
A superb study of memory and of her own voyage into the ninth decade of her ... Read more
Rachel Cooke
Observer
A superb study of memory and of her own voyage into the ninth decade of her ... Read more