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Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
Penelope Lively
- Penguin UK
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Publisher | Penguin UK |
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ISBN | 9781405966993 |
Publication date | November 2024 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Pages | 240 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Description
Ten years ago, Penelope Lively, then eighty, wrote this powerful and compelling 'view from old age', reporting back on what she found. There are meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us. There are intriguing examinations of the key personal as well as historical moments she has lived through and her thoughts on her own bookishness - both as reader and writer. Lastly, she turns to six treasured possessions to speak eloquently about who she is and where she's been - fragments of memories from a life well lived.
Ten years on, Lively returns to the same questions in a new chapter, On Being Ninety, included in this new edition.
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time