Somewhere Towards the End
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Author: Diana Athill (Y)
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 192
Diana Athill will be ninety in December, 2007. Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and how one faces the inevitable fact of death. Athill has lost none of her skill or candour as a writer, her love of the intimate detail. Her book is filled with stories, events and people, and the kind of honest, intelligent reflection that has been a hallmark of her writing throughout her long career. 'We rarely did anything together except make ourselves a pleasant little supper and go to bed, because we had very little in common apart from liking sex,' she writes of her last affair, when she was in her late sixties. 'We also shared painful feet, which was almost as important as liking sex, because when you start feeling your age it is comforting to be with someone in the same condition.' Diana's previous books Instead of A Letter, After a Funeral and Stet, her much praised memoir of her life as a book editor (many said the best in London) with Andre Deutsch. She describes her books as documentaries and her early work prefigured the modern taste for memoir. As she writes in Somewhere Towards the End, 'I believed, and still believe, that there is no point describing experience unless o e tries to get it as near to what it really was as you can make it, but that belief does come into conflict with a central teaching of my upbringing: Do Not Think Yourself Important.'
Author: Diana Athill (Y)
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 192
Diana Athill will be ninety in December, 2007. Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and how one faces the inevitable fact of death. Athill has lost none of her skill or candour as a writer, her love of the intimate detail. Her book is filled with stories, events and people, and the kind of honest, intelligent reflection that has been a hallmark of her writing throughout her long career. 'We rarely did anything together except make ourselves a pleasant little supper and go to bed, because we had very little in common apart from liking sex,' she writes of her last affair, when she was in her late sixties. 'We also shared painful feet, which was almost as important as liking sex, because when you start feeling your age it is comforting to be with someone in the same condition.' Diana's previous books Instead of A Letter, After a Funeral and Stet, her much praised memoir of her life as a book editor (many said the best in London) with Andre Deutsch. She describes her books as documentaries and her early work prefigured the modern taste for memoir. As she writes in Somewhere Towards the End, 'I believed, and still believe, that there is no point describing experience unless o e tries to get it as near to what it really was as you can make it, but that belief does come into conflict with a central teaching of my upbringing: Do Not Think Yourself Important.'
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Diana Athill (Y)
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 192
Diana Athill will be ninety in December, 2007. Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and how one faces the inevitable fact of death. Athill has lost none of her skill or candour as a writer, her love of the intimate detail. Her book is filled with stories, events and people, and the kind of honest, intelligent reflection that has been a hallmark of her writing throughout her long career. 'We rarely did anything together except make ourselves a pleasant little supper and go to bed, because we had very little in common apart from liking sex,' she writes of her last affair, when she was in her late sixties. 'We also shared painful feet, which was almost as important as liking sex, because when you start feeling your age it is comforting to be with someone in the same condition.' Diana's previous books Instead of A Letter, After a Funeral and Stet, her much praised memoir of her life as a book editor (many said the best in London) with Andre Deutsch. She describes her books as documentaries and her early work prefigured the modern taste for memoir. As she writes in Somewhere Towards the End, 'I believed, and still believe, that there is no point describing experience unless o e tries to get it as near to what it really was as you can make it, but that belief does come into conflict with a central teaching of my upbringing: Do Not Think Yourself Important.'
Author: Diana Athill (Y)
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 192
Diana Athill will be ninety in December, 2007. Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and how one faces the inevitable fact of death. Athill has lost none of her skill or candour as a writer, her love of the intimate detail. Her book is filled with stories, events and people, and the kind of honest, intelligent reflection that has been a hallmark of her writing throughout her long career. 'We rarely did anything together except make ourselves a pleasant little supper and go to bed, because we had very little in common apart from liking sex,' she writes of her last affair, when she was in her late sixties. 'We also shared painful feet, which was almost as important as liking sex, because when you start feeling your age it is comforting to be with someone in the same condition.' Diana's previous books Instead of A Letter, After a Funeral and Stet, her much praised memoir of her life as a book editor (many said the best in London) with Andre Deutsch. She describes her books as documentaries and her early work prefigured the modern taste for memoir. As she writes in Somewhere Towards the End, 'I believed, and still believe, that there is no point describing experience unless o e tries to get it as near to what it really was as you can make it, but that belief does come into conflict with a central teaching of my upbringing: Do Not Think Yourself Important.'
Somewhere Towards the End
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