Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography - Hardcover

James, P. D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037541066X ISBN 13: 9780375410666

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

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Based on the diary she kept for years, a candid, revealing autobiography of mystery writer P. D. James retraces her life from her school days in 1930s Cambridge to her membership in the House of Lords and her success as a writer. 50,000 first printing.

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D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in the form of a diary. This enchanting and highly original volume is the result. Structured as the diary of a single year, it roams back and forth through time, illuminating James's extraordinary, sometimes painful and sometimes joyful life.

Here, interwoven with reflections on her writing career and the craft of crime novels, are vivid accounts of episodes in her own past — of school days in 1920s and 1930s Cambridge . . . of the war and the tragedy of her husband's madness . . . of her determined struggle to support a family alone. She tells about the birth of her second daughter in the midst of a German buzz-bomb attack; about becoming a civil servant (and laying the groundwork for her writing career

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 037541066X
• ISBN 13: 9780375410666
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 269