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Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
P. D. James
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Description for Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
Paperback. A memoir of the author's early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 352.
P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age. In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks back on her earlier life. With all her familiar skills as a writer she recalls what it was like to be a schoolgirl in the 1920s and 1930s in Cambridge, and then giving birth to her second daughter during the ... Read more
P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age. In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks back on her earlier life. With all her familiar skills as a writer she recalls what it was like to be a schoolgirl in the 1920s and 1930s in Cambridge, and then giving birth to her second daughter during the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571203963
SKU
V9780571203963
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About P. D. James
P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray, and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).
Reviews for Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography
Deeply moving . . . . Page after page recalls a vanished world.
The New York Times Book Review A cornucopia of discernment, judgment, and wisdom.
San Francisco Chronicle James neither overintellectualizes nor sentimentalizes. . . . Writing about commonplace events, [she] gives them weight and substance and so confirms their reality, investing them ... Read more
The New York Times Book Review A cornucopia of discernment, judgment, and wisdom.
San Francisco Chronicle James neither overintellectualizes nor sentimentalizes. . . . Writing about commonplace events, [she] gives them weight and substance and so confirms their reality, investing them ... Read more