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Making It Up
by Penelope Lively
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Caterham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Published by Viking, London; 2005. First edition, first impression. 248pp. 8vo. Condition: Fine/Fine **Signed by author to title page**
Bound in original dark red cloth boards with gilt title to the spine. The binding is square and tight and free from any damage or marks. Inside, the pages are clean and bright and in very smart condition. There is just a little staining to the rims of the pages. The book is signed by the author to the title page. It reads: "to Allen and Beryl all best wishes, Pen [Penelope] Lively".
This highly original form of fictional autobiography examines alternate destinies, choices and the moments in our lives where we could have chosen a different path. The author takes moments from her own life and asks 'what if'? What if her family hadn't escaped Egypt in 1942, what if she had become pregnant when she was 18 what if she had married someone else, what is she had become an archaeologist...where would life have taken her, how different would her life have been?
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Everlasting Editions
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1001
- Title
- Making It Up
- Author
- Penelope Lively
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 248pp.
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Penelope, lively, making, it, up, autobiography, autobiographical, fiction, dystopia, dystopian, what, if, world, war, two, egypt, romance, drama, family, signed, inscribed, book, fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Modern First Editions;
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Everlasting Editions
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Everlasting Editions sells beautiful rare, collectible and signed first edition books to treasure for a lifetime. We offer a wide range of books rom a variety of genres, but specialising in Modern First Editions and Children's First Editions. Whether you simply collect for the joy of owning beautiful rare books or whether you believe, as we do, that they are a worthwhile investment in a time of economic difficulties, we are confident that we have the right book for you.
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