Diana Athill

Broschiertes Buch

Make Believe

A True Story

Beschreibung

Diana Athill's account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendship, love, mania and injustice.

Autor

Diana Athill was born in 1917. She helped André Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet. She is the author of seven further volumes of memoirs, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, Alive, Alive Oh!, A Florence Diary, and a collection of letters, Instead of a Book, all published by Granta. Her only novel, Don't Look At Me Like That, was first published in 1967. In January 2009, she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End, and was presented with an OBE. She died in January 2019.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 116g
• ISBN-13: 9781783787449
• ISBN-10: 1783787449
• Artikelnr.: 62821720