Making it Up
Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively's answer to the oft-asked question, "How much of what you write comes from your own life?" What if Lively hadn't escaped from Egypt, her birthplace, at the outbreak of World War II?...
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Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively's answer to the oft-asked question, "How much of what you write comes from your own life?" What if Lively hadn't escaped from Egypt, her birthplace, at the outbreak of World War II? What would her life have been like if she'd married someone else? From a hillside in Italy to an archaeological dig, the author explores the stories that could have been hers, fashioning a sublime dance between reality and imagination that confirms her reputation as a singular talent.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143037842 (0143037846)
Publish date: September 26th 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
I really can't pick my favorite Lively novel, but this collection of what-could-have-been vignettes is certainly up there. Lively's usual delicious prose, combined with hints of autobiography, is twisted into fiction spanning the 40s-80s. I'm not sure I can pick a favorite story or permutation of Li...
Confabulations. Exploring turning points in her life and how her life might have been if she'd taken a different turning, eg if when fleeing Egypt, they'd gone to S Africa instead of Palestine then England, if she'd got pregnant when young and single. Each self-contained diversion is opened and clos...
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