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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Viking Pr
Publication date
February 6, 2014
Pages
234
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780670016556
ISBN-10
0670016551
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$26.95
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing
“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.”
Memory and history have been Penelope Lively’s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her influences and formative years.
Dancing Fish and Ammonites traces the arc of Lively’s life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of Britain’s twentieth century. She reflects on her early love of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have accompanied her journey—including a sherd of Egyptian ceramic depicting dancing fish and ammonites found years ago on a Dorset beach. She also writes insightfully about aging and what life looks like from where she now stands.
“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.”
Memory and history have been Penelope Lively’s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her influences and formative years.
Dancing Fish and Ammonites traces the arc of Lively’s life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of Britain’s twentieth century. She reflects on her early love of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have accompanied her journey—including a sherd of Egyptian ceramic depicting dancing fish and ammonites found years ago on a Dorset beach. She also writes insightfully about aging and what life looks like from where she now stands.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
from Viking Pr (February 6, 2014)
9780670016556 | details & prices | 234 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $26.95
About: The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing“The memory that we live with .
About: The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing“The memory that we live with .
Paperback
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (June 23, 2015)
9780143126270 | details & prices | 222 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $16.00
Library
Large print edition from Center Point Pub (April 1, 2014)
9781628990546 | details & prices | 239 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $34.95
About: ""The memory that we live with .
About: ""The memory that we live with .
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