A Life of My Own
Autor Claire Tomalinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2018
In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of a wartime childhood, Cambridge friendships and an early marriage to a brilliant journalist. After his sudden death in a war zone, Claire is left to raise their four children alone - all while leading a trail-blazing career in literary London.
A Life of My Ownis the tale of a woman overcoming obstacles both rare and routine to live not only a good but also a meaningful life.
'A dramatic and absorbing survivor's tale' Hilary Spurling,Spectator
'Unexpectedly moving. Tomalin's story filled me with a kind of awe. Every page is valiant, every paragraph full of pluck' Rachel Cooke,New Statesman
'She has been tested in ways few women are. This memoir is a triumph' Valerie Grove,Literary Review
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241974834
ISBN-10: 0241974836
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241974836
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Claire
Tomalinis
a
former
Literary
Editor
at
theNew
Statesmanand
theSunday
Times.
She
has
written
seven
highly
acclaimed
literary
biographies,
includingSamuel
Pepys,which
won
the
Whitbread
Book
of
the
Year
Award,
and
in
2011
the
international
bestsellerCharles
Dickens.She
is
married
to
the
playwright
and
novelist
Michael
Frayn.
Recenzii
You
will
find
it
hard
not
to
be
amazed
and
impossible
not
to
be
moved
by
the
indomitable
spirit
which
drives
this
memoir...She
comes
across
like
the
heroine
of
a
great
novel...a
hugely
entertaining
book
Absorbing, moving andmarvellously written
Her memoir is peppered with fascinating pen portraits and anecdotes... she has tried, as Pepys did in his life, to give the 'texture' of a life.This she has achieved quite brilliantly
She should be a heroine to modern snowflakes who melt at the first hurdle. Tomalin is like a glacier: unstoppable, inexorable, gathering resolve as she goes...The book is poised and beautifully paced
I loved Claire Tomalin's memoir and ate through it in a day when I was supposed to be doing other things. So interesting and delightful and charming. I loved how she weaves the big dramatic events with the everyday - which is so much of what life is.
She has been tested in ways few women are. Her ability to overcome adversity may seem discreetly, even austerely handled, but for Claire Tomalin this memoir is another triumph
It is not Tomalin's professional life that impresses most in this memoir but her survival through personal tragedy, or rather , her remarkable ability to articulate its bleakness... She speaks from the heart but retains a sort of privacy, and is all the more powerful for it
As well as her adventures in literary London as a hack, we also see a private life of contentment and heartbreak
Ambushingly poignant
There is a truth to every chapter of her recollection
As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin had written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life
In this triumph of clear sightedness, Tomalin turns her biographers searchlight on herself
Absorbing, moving andmarvellously written
Her memoir is peppered with fascinating pen portraits and anecdotes... she has tried, as Pepys did in his life, to give the 'texture' of a life.This she has achieved quite brilliantly
She should be a heroine to modern snowflakes who melt at the first hurdle. Tomalin is like a glacier: unstoppable, inexorable, gathering resolve as she goes...The book is poised and beautifully paced
I loved Claire Tomalin's memoir and ate through it in a day when I was supposed to be doing other things. So interesting and delightful and charming. I loved how she weaves the big dramatic events with the everyday - which is so much of what life is.
She has been tested in ways few women are. Her ability to overcome adversity may seem discreetly, even austerely handled, but for Claire Tomalin this memoir is another triumph
It is not Tomalin's professional life that impresses most in this memoir but her survival through personal tragedy, or rather , her remarkable ability to articulate its bleakness... She speaks from the heart but retains a sort of privacy, and is all the more powerful for it
As well as her adventures in literary London as a hack, we also see a private life of contentment and heartbreak
Ambushingly poignant
There is a truth to every chapter of her recollection
As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin had written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life
In this triumph of clear sightedness, Tomalin turns her biographers searchlight on herself