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Don't Look at Me Like That

Don't Look at Me Like That( )
Author: Athill, Diana
ISBN:978-1-86207-441-5
Publication Date:Aug 2001
Publisher:Granta Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $12.99
Book Description:

In 1950s England, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be spoken of; some are most certainly not to be done. There are rules, conventions. Meg Bailey obeys them. She progresses from Home Counties school to un-Bohemian art college with few outward signs of passion or frustration. Her personality is submerged in polite routines; even with her best friend, Roxane, what can't be said looms far larger than what can.

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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.07 x 7.644 x 0.203 Inches
Book Weight:0.33 Pounds
Author Biography
Athill, Diana (Author)
Diana Athill was born in England on December 21, 1917. She was educated at Oxford University. During World War II, she as a researcher with the BBC. She worked as an editor at Allan Wingate and then at André Deutsch. Athill started writing autobiography in her early 40s. Her memoir, Instead of a Letter, was published in 1962. Her other memoirs included After a Funeral; Make Believe; Alive, Alive Oh!; Stet; Yesterday Morning; and A Florence Diary. Somewhere Towards the End won a Costa Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works included a volume of short stories entitled An Unavoidable Delay and a novel entitled Don't Look at Me Like That. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2009. She died on January 23, 2019 at the age of 101.

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