Jean Lucey Pratt

A Notable Woman (eBook, ePUB)

The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
Redaktion: Garfield, Simon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTEL In April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly and so vividly captured a single woman's journey through the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782115717
• Artikelnr.: 43846795

Autorenporträt

Jean Lucey Pratt was born in 1909 in Wembley, Middlesex and lived much of her life in a small cottage on the edge of Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire. She was a trainee architect, she was a publicist, she gardened, she took in lodgers, she read copiously, she wrote criticism, and in later years she ran a bookshop. But above all, she kept track of her life in the most lyrical of ways, from the age of 15 until just a few days before her death in 1986.

Rezensionen

The most moving and important book I read this year by a mile: funny, tender and gripping RACHEL COOKE New Statesman