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Athill is matter-of-fact but discreet about events such as a miscarriage that nearly killed her and about the prostate troubles suffered by Reckord, with whom she lives.
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Athill is matter-of-fact but discreet about events such as a miscarriage that nearly killed her and about the prostate troubles suffered by Reckord, with whom she lives.
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The judges called Athill's book "a perfect memoir of old age - candid, detailed, charming, totally lacking in self-pity or sentimentality and above all, beautifully, beautifully written".
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Born in 1917, Athill worked for decades at an esteemed London publishing firm, where she edited the Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul and others, and she has had a vibrant life that included an affair with the playwright Barry Reckord.
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Diana Athill has mastered that bittersweet negotiation with old age that the poet Elizabeth Bishop called “the art of losing.”
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This fleeting literary festival manages to pack a huge amount into a single day, with authors from Diana Athill to Ian Hislop appearing and offering you the chance to get some signed editions in for Christmas.
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Worst Line: Athill writes of a 103-year-old woman who had a “positive attitude” (and, a page later, a “positive outlook”), a rare descent into cliché.
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Diana Athill, the English writer and former editor for the firm of André Deutsch, says in her elegant new memoir, Somewhere Towards the End:
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Athill edited the British editions of books by Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, John Updike and others.
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Athill edited the British editions of books by Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, John Updike and others.
Diana Athill Looks Back on a Life of Editing Books « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009
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