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The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page

''Lifescapes is the universe in miniature''
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It is soul that I go looking for. Or, to put it another way, real life.

''She''s a genius, I believe''
HILARY MANTEL, author of Wolf Hall

''What is life?'' asked the poet Shelley, and could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, for all their understanding of how life manifests, thrives and evolves, have still not plumbed that fundamental question. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is.

In this dazzlingly original blend of memoir, biography, observation and poetry, Ann Wroe reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and those of

Lifescapes

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Publishing
      Published 7 November 2024
      ISBN-13 9781529922547
      978-1529922547
      ISBN-10 1529922542
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page

      ''Lifescapes is the universe in miniature''
      DAILY TELEGRAPH

      It is soul that I go looking for. Or, to put it another way, real life.

      ''She''s a genius, I believe''
      HILARY MANTEL, author of Wolf Hall

      ''What is life?'' asked the poet Shelley, and could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, for all their understanding of how life manifests, thrives and evolves, have still not plumbed that fundamental question. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is.

      In this dazzlingly original blend of memoir, biography, observation and poetry, Ann Wroe reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and those of

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