Time to Be in Earnest - P.D. James
A Fragment of Autobiography
KORTE INHOUD
On the day she turned seventy-seven, internationally acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James embarked on an endeavor unlike any other in her distinguished career: she decided to write a personal memoir in the form of a diary. Over the course of a year she set down not only the events and impressions of her extraordinarily active life, but also the memories, joys, discoveries, and crises of a lifetime. This enchantingly original volume is the result.
Time to Be in Earnest offers an intimate portrait of one of most accomplished women of our time. Here are vivid, revealing accounts of her school days in Cambridge in the 1920s and '30s, her happy marriage and the tragedy of her husband's mental illness, and the thrill of publishing her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962. As she recounts the decades of her exceptional life, James holds forth with wit and candor on such diverse subjects as the evolution of the detective novel, her deep love of the English countryside, her views of author tours and television adaptati...
Time to Be in Earnest offers an intimate portrait of one of most accomplished women of our time. Here are vivid, revealing accounts of her school days in Cambridge in the 1920s and '30s, her happy marriage and the tragedy of her husband's mental illness, and the thrill of publishing her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962. As she recounts the decades of her exceptional life, James holds forth with wit and candor on such diverse subjects as the evolution of the detective novel, her deep love of the English countryside, her views of author tours and television adaptati...
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2001 Uitgever: Ballantine Books 288 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0345442121 ISBN-13: 9780345442123Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Staat: Goed / Bladzijden: 269 / Druk: 1 / Art.nr. : 206ee078-1394-4f06-b144-b482321ea51d / Vindplaats: opslag Based on the diary she kept for years, a candid, revealing autobiography of mystery writer P. D. James retraces her life from her school days in 1930s Cambridge to her membership in the House of Lords and her success as a writer. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. [Druk: 1] [Auteur: P D James] [Pagina's: 269] [Uitgever: Ballantine Books] [Jaar: 2001] [Titel: Time to Be in Earnest]
