Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography [FIRST EDITION]

James, P.D.

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000

Beschreibung

As new condition red boards/black spine/silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by P.D. James; Author Dedication; Prologue; Appendix; Index; and A Note About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. "In 1997, P.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 the 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 by working in the criminal justice system); about her years of public service on such bodies as the Arts Council and the BBC's Board of Governors, culminating in entry to the House of Lords. Along the way, with warmth and authority, she offers views on everything from author tours to the problems of television adaptations, from book reviewing to her obsession with Jane Austen. Written with exeptional grace, this "fragment of autobiography" has already been received with enthusiasm by British reviewers and readers. The thousands of Americans who hav enjoyed P.D. James's novels will be equally charmed. Diary or memoir or both, Time to Be in Earnest is a delight." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005291

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of ...

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2000

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition