“What a feast. Diana’s work compels me. . . . She’s got her teeth into life!”―Alice Munro
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 books."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 books. Edited, selected, and introduced by Athill, and annotated with her own delightful notes, this collectionrich with Athills characteristic wit, humor, elegance, and honestyreveals a sharply intelligent woman with a keen eye for the absurd, a brilliant turn of phrase, and a wicked sense of humor. Covering her career as an editor, the adventure of her retirement, her immersion in her own writing, and her reactions to becoming unexpectedly famous in her old ageincluding gossip about legendary authors and mutual friends, sharp pen-portraits, and uninhibited accounts of her relationshipsLetters to a Friend describes a flourishing friendship and offers a portrait of a woman growing older without ever losing her zest for life. What a feast. Dianas work compels me. . . . Shes got her teeth into life!Alice Munro Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780393345490
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Book Description Condition: New. 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. . 2013. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780393345490