{"product_id":"somewhere-towards-the-end-9780393338003","title":"Somewhere Towards the End","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —“An honest joy to read” (Alice Munro).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Athill writes…with clarity, calm, and common sense.\" -- Barbara Fisher - Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\"Life, not death, is her preoccupation…Reflections on old age, rather than on a long life lived are rare…It is rarer still for a woman to write such a book: so Athill’s candor and economic prose on religion, regrets, and sex are invigorating.\" -- Emma Jacobs - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Jean Rhys said that literature was a lake, and what mattered was to contribute to it, even if only a trickle. She contributed a narrow boiling river. Diana Athill has contributed a cool clear burn.\" -- Carole Angier - Literary Review\u003cbr\u003e\"A great gift. . . . This is a warm, inspiring book.\" -- Susan Salter Reynolds - Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Bracingly frank…joyful rather than grim… she offers clear-eyed wisdom of the grandma-you-wish-you’d-had variety.\" -- People\u003cbr\u003e\"To paraphrase Shakespeare, wisdom is bred in neither the heart nor the head, but in the bones that carry us through the decades. A few very talented artists, like Diana Athill, may persuade their old bones to yield up a glimpse or two of what they’ve learned.\" -- Laura Miller - Salon\u003cbr\u003e\"There is something terrifically comforting about a nonagenarian writing with clarity, wit and verve about getting old and facing death. . . . [Athill] evokes another grande dame of British letters in her uninhibited lifestyle and no-holds-barred, clarion voice: last year’s Nobel Prize winner, Doris Lessing.\" -- N. Heller McAlpin - San Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\"Welcome and original.\" -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"She writes as a person of wide-ranging learning, a generalist, a lover of men and animals and a garden enthusiast, a person intoxicated with life.\" -- Erica Jong - The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"A spry dispatch on the condition of being elderly.\" -- The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\"Unusually appealing. . . . To readers Athill delivers far more than modest pleasure: Her easy-going prose and startling honesty are riveting, for whither she has gone many of us will go as well.\" -- Michael Dirda - Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\"A perfect memoir of old age—candid, detailed, charming, totally lacking in self-pity or sentimentality and above all, beautifully, beautifully written.\" -- The Costa Award Judges","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525142651223,"sku":"9780393338003","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/somewhere-towards-the-end-9780393338003","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}