My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past - Hardcover

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1593760280 ISBN 13: 9781593760281

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2004

Synopsis

For her first novel in more than nine years, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written a most unusual book in a career of distinctive and unique accomplishments. My Nine Lives is "Chapters of a Possible Past," as the subtitle declares. It is, as the author has commented, a book filled with "invented memories." Nine vignettes are linked to portray a rich life filled with searching, from London to Delhi, from Hollywood to New York. Each chapter gathers a different cast of characters, some new and some vaguely familiar, and the linked assembly is as exciting and illuminating as an artist's first show at a Soho gallery or a new play at the Studio Theater.
After seventeen books, now in her 77th year, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala takes on as her subject herself, the life she may have or may have wished to live. My Nine Lives is a moving and intriguing book of invention and memory.

About this title

Review:

"A writer of genius...a writer of world class...a master storyteller."

Book Description:

Booker Prize-Winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's outstanding new novel explores a woman's possible destinies and carries subtle autobiographical resonances

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1593760280
• ISBN 13: 9781593760281
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224