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An esteemed memoirist examines aging with the grace of Elegy for Iris and the wry irreverence of I Feel Bad About My Neck . Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she... read more
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NEAR THE PARK which my bedroom overlooks there came to stay a family which owned a pack of pugs, five or six of them, active little dogs, none of them overweight as pugs so often are.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 37 of 100 in Top 100 Books That Defined The Noughties (Telegraph). (authoritative list)
Preceded by Miracles of Life, and followed by A Million Little Pieces.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Diana Athill (Author)
Awards edit
- Costa Book Award (2008: Biography)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (2009: Autobiography)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 828.91409
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