A Life of My Own.
by Tomalin, Claire
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0241239958
- ISBN 13
- 9780241239957
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Viking / Penguin Books, 2017. Reprint ed.. Hardcover octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), few black & white text-photos, minor edgewear jacket (small dent rear cover). 331 pp. This memoir by Claire Tomalin follows her through triumph and tragedy (in equal measure) from the bad marriage of her parents, the difficult wartime childhood that followed, to her own marriage to the young journalist Nicholas Tomalin. He was killed on assignment as a war correspondent leaving her on her own to bring up their four children and make her own career. Claire became one of the most successful literary editors in London, and went on to discover her true vocation as a biographer, alongside overwhelming grief at the loss of a child. She sets her life in a wider cultural and political context, vividly and honestly portraying the social pressures on a woman in the 1950s and 1960s, and showing 'how it was for a European girl growing up in mid-20th-century England carried along by conflicting desires to have children and a worthwhile working life'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41103
- Title
- A Life of My Own.
- Author
- Tomalin, Claire
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0241239958
- ISBN 13
- 9780241239957
- Publisher
- Viking / Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- biography, autobiography, literature, novelists, britain
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.