Time to Be in Earnest
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: November 6, 2000
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780571203963
Subjects: Biography: general; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; English; Biography/Autobiography
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.