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Dancing Fish And Ammonites: A Memoir (2014)

by Penelope Lively(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0670016551 (ISBN13: 9780670016556)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: A lively little collection of personal essays by a wonderful writer. Most of her output has been novels and Moon Tiger won the Booker. Lively is aware that at age 80 she is going to have to slow down. But her pleasures are not diminished: she reflects on her love of literature, her family and memories of travel and growing up in Egypt. Lively is a particularly engaging writer, and this memoir is a special read.
review 2: Penelope Lively is a British fiction writer, who was born in Cairo, went to boarding school in England, and has seen first-hand many changes in the social system in Britain. As she is in her 80's, she muses about old age, and writes a bit about being "corralled with one's own age group." She prefers to be a part of the world around her, wi... moreth children and adult of all ages around her. Most of us haven't really thought about that much, we still often think age groups should be kept together. Anyway, Lively has a 'lively' interest in many things, including archaeology. This was a great book. less

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