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An Education
Lynn Barber
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Description for An Education
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When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which, incredibly, was encouraged by her conventional, suburban parents and which took her into the louche, semi-criminal world of west London just as the 1960s began. Ruin beckoned, until one day she made an important discovery. 'An Education', the opening piece of this fascinating memoir, was highly praised when first ... Read more
When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which, incredibly, was encouraged by her conventional, suburban parents and which took her into the louche, semi-criminal world of west London just as the 1960s began. Ruin beckoned, until one day she made an important discovery. 'An Education', the opening piece of this fascinating memoir, was highly praised when first ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
202g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141039558
SKU
V9780141039558
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Lynn Barber
Lynn Barber studied English at Oxford University. She began her career in journalism at Penthouse, and has since worked for a number of major British newspapers and for Vanity Fair. She currently writes for the Observer. She has published two volumes of her celebrated interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber.
Reviews for An Education
Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout.
Zoe Heller
Zoe Heller