 The acclaimed writer on her new book, published to mark her 90th birthday
Diana Athill is a writer and editor who has led an extraordinary life. She helped found the publishing company Andre Deutsch and was editor to some illustrious writers, such as Philip Roth, VS Naipaul, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Stevie Smith and Jean Rhys, the author of “Wide Sargasso Sea”. To mark her 90th birthday her latest book, “Somewhere Towards the End”, has been published. In it she offers original and lively observations on the lessons she has learned from life: she reflects on her loves, the people she’s cared for, and the acclaim that her own writing has won her in the last few years since the publication of her memoir “Stet”. Unflinchingly honest and often funny, she talks about her reluctance to be a “carer” and how other things have become more interesting since “the ebbing of sex”.
“Somewhere Towards the End” by Diana Athill is published by Granta,10th January 2008, ISBN-13: 978-1862079847
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