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23%OFFJennie Erdal - Ghosting: A Double Life - 9781841956374 - V9781841956374
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Ghosting: A Double Life

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Description for Ghosting: A Double Life Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGB; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
Ghosting is a remarkable account of one woman's life - or, to be more accurate, lives. For fifteen years, Jennie Erdal had a double existence: officially she worked as a personal editor for one particular man - Tiger - but in reality she was his ghost-writer and in some mysterious sense his alter ego. During this time she wrote a great deal that appeared under his name - from personal letters and business correspondence to newspaper columns, novels and full length books. Ghosting moves from a vivid evocation of an austere upbringing in Fife to superbly rendered portraits of the people with whom Jennie Erdal worked at a London-based publishing house, chief among them Tiger, the larger-than-life character with whom the author had a unique and symbiotic relationship; professionally hidden, yet somehow truthful and intimate. This moving and beautifully written memoir is laced throughout with rich, quiet comedy and profound insights into what it means to be human and to live in language. Ghosting is a meditation on words, identity and creativity, but above all it is a portrait of a uniquely intimate relationship between a man and a woman.

Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841956374
SKU
V9781841956374
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About Jennie Erdal
Jennie Erdal worked as an editor and translator for many years. Ghosting is her first book published under her own name. She lives in St Andrews.

Reviews for Ghosting: A Double Life
Jennie Erdal set a benchmark for candour and wisdom when she wrote about her 15-year association with Niam Attallah in the brilliant memoir Ghosting.

Independent

A little masterpiece about a relationship, superbly written in a down to earth style, and as enjoyable as a good novel.

Sunday Times

If this were simply a ghost-and-tell book, it would be of interest only to a very limited number of the London literati. But it is much, much more than that; it is a beautifully composed memoir; sometimes rather desperate, sometimes very funny, of an extraordinary symbiotic relationship between two very different people.
Craig Brown

Mail On Sunday

Jennie Erdal has written a book that is hugely enjoyable to read, touches on profound questions about language and writing and provides a vivid and often affectionate, but fairly merciless, portrait of an exasperating, despotic, self-deluding but in the end likable figure, with the tantrums of a small child and the plumage of a peacock.
Caroline Moorehead

Spectator


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