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Letters to a Friend
Athill, Diana; Field, Edward
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Description for Letters to a Friend
Paperback. This epistolary memoir rich with Athill's characteristic wit, humor, eleganceand honesty describes a warm, decades-long friendship. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
Diana Athill is one of our great women of letters. The renowned editor of V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, and many others, she is also a celebrated memoirist whose Somewhere Towards the End was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. For thirty years, Athill corresponded with the American poet Edward Field, freely sharing jokes, pleasures, and pains with her old friend. Letters to a Friend is an epistolary memoir that describes a warm, decades-long friendship. Written with intimacy and spontaneity, candor and grace, it is perhaps more revealing than any of her celebrated ... Read more
Diana Athill is one of our great women of letters. The renowned editor of V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, and many others, she is also a celebrated memoirist whose Somewhere Towards the End was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. For thirty years, Athill corresponded with the American poet Edward Field, freely sharing jokes, pleasures, and pains with her old friend. Letters to a Friend is an epistolary memoir that describes a warm, decades-long friendship. Written with intimacy and spontaneity, candor and grace, it is perhaps more revealing than any of her celebrated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393345490
SKU
V9780393345490
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About Athill, Diana; Field, Edward
After a distinguished career as a book editor, Diana Athill (1917—2019) won the National Book Critics Circle and Costa Biography Awards for her New York Times best-selling memoir Somewhere Towards the End. In January 2009, she was presented with an Order of the British Empire.
Reviews for Letters to a Friend
"Many writers can be admired for their lyricism, their powers of imagination and their incisive wit. But there’s only one I can think of who inspires a way to live life: Diana Athill."
Elizabeth Taylor - Chicago Tribune "“[T]renchant and engaging . . . often hilarious."
Bill Eichenberger - Cleveland Plain Dealer "Diana Athill is perhaps best known ... Read more
Elizabeth Taylor - Chicago Tribune "“[T]renchant and engaging . . . often hilarious."
Bill Eichenberger - Cleveland Plain Dealer "Diana Athill is perhaps best known ... Read more