Time to Be In Earnest
Publisher: Faber Faber Inc
Published: February 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780571200948
Subjects: Biography: general; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Diaries; James, P. D; English
First sentence: I am writing this sitting in an almost empty first-class compartment of the 3:32 train from Newton Abbot to Paddington, and staring out at the red Devon countryside, now blurred and seeming to dissolve in rain; even the eagerly awaited stretch of coast at Dawlish and Teignmouth failed in its usual magic.