An Education - Softcover

Barber, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934633852 ISBN 13: 9781934633854

Publisher: Atlas Books, 2010

Synopsis

When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was on her way home from school and offered her a ride. It was the beginning of a long journey from innocence to precocious experience—an affair with an older man that would change her life. Barber’s seducer left her with a taste for luxury hotels and posh restaurants and trips abroad, expensive habits that she managed to support in later life as a successful London journalist whose barbed interviews at once terrorized and fascinated her smart-set subjects.

A poignant, shockingly candid account of the stages in a literary life—from promiscuity at Oxford to a stint at Penthouse to a complex marriage that endured—An Education is a classic of English memoir.

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Review:

[Barber s] a suburban girl who s frightened that she s goingto get cut out of everything good that happens in the city.That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. It s the storyof pretty much every rock n roll band.--Nick Hornby, author of the screenplay adaptation of An Education

From the Back Cover:

'A cautionary tale, a tragedy of innocence lost' Sunday Telegraph

1960: A stranger in a sports car offered sixteen-year-old
Lynn Barber a lift. It changed her life.

The stranger charmed his way not only into Lynn's life, but also that of her parents. He took her virginity, whisked her off to Paris, introduced her to his charming friends, and even offered to make her his wife. But he was neither who nor what he said he was. And only when Lynn's parents were on the point of accepting him into their family, did she realise the mistake she'd made in accepting that lift.

Lynn Barber shows how this strange affair coloured the rest of her life - what she wanted from men and her instinctive distrust of others.

'Bracingly sharp. A chilling glimpse into the guileless limbo between girlhood and adulthood' Sunday Times

'Thrillingly readable, you'll want to finish it in one sitting' Tatler

'Moving, funny, frank' Evening Standard

'Magnificent, searing, honest' Mail on Sunday

'Absolutely marvellous, shocking, pacy, witty' Spectator

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlas Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1934633852
• ISBN 13: 9781934633854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192