Inventory of a Life Mislaid - An Unreliable Memoir

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.
'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW

Info autore

Marina Warner's study of the Arabian Nights, Stranger Magic (2011) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2013; in 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities and was made DBE. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature.

Riassunto

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. ‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination’ JENNY UGLOW

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Marina Warner
• Editore: William Collins
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780008347581
• ISBN: 978-0-00-834758-1
• Dimensioni: 141 mm x 222 mm x 38 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Arte, letteratura > Biografie, autobiografie; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, English, Egypt, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, British & Irish history, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, Local & family history, nostalgia, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1950 to c 1959, Middle Eastern history, Biography: writers, C 1945 To C 1960