STET, AN EDITOR'S LIFE () is about her 50 years i. LIFE CLASS is actually a collection of four separate memoirs. Athill is now in her 90's and two of them, YESTERDAY MORNING () and SOMEWHERE NEAR THE END () talk about her experiences as an old person/5. “One of the many excellent things about Diana Athill’s previous memoir, Stet (), about her long and storied career as a book editor in London – she worked with V. S. Naipaul, John Updike and Norman Mailer, among others – was that she allowed the gaps in her story to fill, like frosting layered onto a cake, with fulsome memories of her own cherished dead. "Stet, then, is a marvellous title for a memoir -- and Diana Athill's account of her life as a publisher and the writers with whom she worked fully lives up to it. Diana Athill is the mistress of a cool, seemingly careless style." - David Sexton, Evening StandardAuthor: Diana Athill.
A New York Times Notable Book: This memoir of a career in book publishing "should please anyone who cares about twentieth-century literature" (The Washington Post Book World).For nearly five decades, Diana Athill edited (nursed, coerced, coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language, among them V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, John Updike, Jean Rhys, Mordecai Richler. This is the collection of 4 memoirs of Diana Athill. 1. Yesterday Morning (about her growing up years) 2. Instead of a letter (about Oxford, initial love and engagement, eventual cancelling of engagement, down and depressed, eventual Recovery and fight back, careers etc) 3. Stet (Her life as an Editor) 4. Somewhere towards the end (Post-retirement) I had actually read "Somewhere towards. "Stet, then, is a marvellous title for a memoir -- and Diana Athill's account of her life as a publisher and the writers with whom she worked fully lives up to it. Diana Athill is the mistress of a cool, seemingly careless style." - David Sexton, Evening Standard.
“One of the many excellent things about Diana Athill’s previous memoir, Stet (), about her long and storied career as a book editor in London – she worked with V. S. Naipaul, John Updike and Norman Mailer, among others – was that she allowed the gaps in her story to fill, like frosting layered onto a cake, with fulsome memories of her own cherished dead. STET by Diana Athill. For nearly five decades Diana Athill helped shape some of the finest books in modern literature. In this extract from her vivid memoir, STET, she writes about the people who. Stet is a memoir of her life at Andre Deutsch from the immediate post World War II era until it was finally sold and absorbed into a larger firm in There are two main parts to Stet. The first section deals with Athill's own ups and downs as an editor, dealing with and catering to the eccentricities and whims of her co-workers and of the authors she dealt with.
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