An Education - Couverture souple

Barber, Lynn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1934633852 ISBN 13 : 9781934633854

Editeur : Atlas Books, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Barber Lynn

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Lynn Barber's true story, now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby.At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life. Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, revealing how it left her with an abiding mistrust of men which paradoxically led her to a promiscuous life-style at university until she met her husband-to-be. An Education tells how she went on to work for seven years at daring (for the times) men's magazine Penthouse before beginning her starry days as the Demon Barber - Britain's most entertaining and most feared interviewer. The book ends with an extraordinarily moving account of the early death of her husband. Her writing is refreshingly frank and funny.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which, incredibly, was encouraged by her conventional, suburban parents and which took her into the louche, semi-criminal world of west London just as the 1960s began. Ruin beckoned, until one day she made an important discovery.'An Education', the opening piece of this fascinating memoir, was highly praised when first published in Granta magazine, and is currently being filmed by the BBC with a Nick Hornby script.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Atlas Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1934633852
• ISBN 13: 9781934633854
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192