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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 sense of humour. 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-age, and including gossip about mutual friends, sharp pen portraits, and uninhibited accounts her relationships - and ailments - Instead of a Book gives a wonderful description of a woman growing older without ever losing her zest for life.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Diaries, letters & journals

• Full title: Instead of a Book
• Author: Diana Athill
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9781847084149
• ISBN: 1847084141
• ID: 01232176
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Weight: 248 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 130 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2012

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