Making It Up - Hardcover

Lively, Penelope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670034479 ISBN 13: 9780670034475

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2005

Synopsis

A tale based on the author's own life considers what might have happened had she made other choices or experienced different outcomes at pivotal moments, considering such fictional turns of events as her family's failure to escape from Egypt during World War II, an unplanned teen pregnancy, and a marriage to another person. By the author of Moon Tiger. 40,000 first printing.

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Review:

Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about �love�... than Penelope Lively. (Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post") Eminently wise and amusing. ("The Boston Globe") "Making It Up" display�s� Livelys incisive prose style, her wit, and, above all, her agile imagination. ("Entertainment Weekly") Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]... than Penelope Lively. (Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post") Eminently wise and amusing. ("The Boston Globe") "Making It Up" display[s] Livelys incisive prose style, her wit, and, above all, her agile imagination. ("Entertainment Weekly")

About the Author:

Penelope Lively grew up in Egypt but settled in England after the war and took a degree in history at St Anne's College, Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of PEN and the Society of Authors. She was married to the late Professor Jack Lively, has a daughter, a son and four grandchildren, and lives in Oxfordshire and London.

Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels and short story collections for both adults and children. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her novels include Passing On, shortlisted for the 1989 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, City of the Mind, Cleopatra's Sister and Heat Wave.

Penelope Lively has also written radio and television scripts and has acted as presenter for a BBC Radio 4 program on children's literature. She is a popular writer for children and has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0670034479
• ISBN 13: 9780670034475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 215