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The Book Of Life
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From childhood through to adulthood - if not necessarily maturity – The Book of Life offers the literary journal of a lifetime, in the company of the most fascinating and talented figures in history.From Alan Bennett’s wartime childhood in Yorkshire to Mahatma Gandhi’s experiment with cigarettes; Katherine Hepburn on her first acting job aged 21 and Primo Levi on being captured by Fascist militia at the same age; Darwin on his lifelong love – his work – and Nelson Mandela on his release from prison aged 71 … life and living in all its manifold glories is represented.With insights that encompass generations and continents, this is a uniquely enjoyable immersion in some of the world’s best, and most personal, writing.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.638 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.5 × 15.3 × 23.4 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 496 |
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| Year Published | 2008-2-7 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0091908469 |
| About The Author | Eve Claxton was born in London and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has written for a variety of publications on both sides of the Atlantic including Vogue, The Tatler and the Guardian. This is her first anthology. |
In The Book of Life … the reader is very aware of the marvellous, pulsing veined and passionate, unique-to-every-individual life force … you dip into the pages and find treasure upon treasure … we can enjoy an abundance of heart-felt outpourings … fascinating … like the vast spectrum of human experience collected in this book, it excites us and affords us a little shock of recognition |
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| Other text | Occasionally a book comes along that is so well conceived and artfully constructed it demands a permanent place on a book lover's shelf – The Book of Life is one. This is an enthralling collection of memoirs and anecdotes … Claxton has done a magnificent job in digging out fascinating works … Moving, emotional, revealing – this is a book that devotees of the written word will read again and again |
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