Ammonites and leaping fish
Subtitle: a life in time
By: Penelope Lively
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: ISIS large print
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781445099507; 9781445099514; 9780445099514
Subjects: English Women novelists; Biography; English Novelists; Old age; Large type books
Description: "This is not quite a memoir. Rather, it is the view from old age. And a view of old age itself, this place at which we arrive with a certain surprise - ambushed, or so it can seem. One of the few advantages of age is that you can report on it with a certain authority; you are a native now, and know what goes on here." Taking in old age, the context of ones life and times, memory, reading and writing, and the identifying cargo of possessions - two ammonites, a cat, a pair of American ducks and a leaping fish sherd, amongst others - this is an elegant, moving and deeply enjoyable memoir by one of our most loved writers."--Publisher description.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London: Fig Tree, 2013.