Penelope Lively

Ammonites and Leaping Fish

A Life in Time

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Features meditations on what it is like to be old as well as on how memory shapes us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 170g
• ISBN-13: 9780241966983
• ISBN-10: 0241966981
• Artikelnr.: 40603896

Autorenporträt

Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short-story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Beyond the Blue Mountains; Oleander, Jacaranda; Spiderweb; A House Unlocked; The Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It All Began. She was appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE in 2012.

Rezensionen

Fascinating, lucid . . . Authority, yes; and wit, thoughtfulness, a tender attention to the natural world, an incisive but deeply humane imagination: Ammonites and Leaping Fish is full of all of these Helen Dunmore The Times