Purchase
Viking
February 2014
On Sale: February 6, 2014
224 pages
ISBN: 0670016551
EAN: 9780670016556
Kindle: B00DMCV8CC
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Memoir
The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look
back at a life of reading and writing
“The
memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of
our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It
is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have
been.”
Memory and history have been Penelope
Lively’s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned
five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a
glimpse into her influences and formative years.
Dancing Fish and Ammonites traces the arc of Lively’s
life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to
boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of
Britain’s twentieth century. She reflects on her early love
of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have
accompanied her journey—including a sherd of Egyptian
ceramic depicting dancing fish and ammonites found years ago
on a Dorset beach. She also writes insightfully about aging
and what life looks like from where she now stands.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy