Dancing fish and ammonites : a memoir
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Author
Published
New York : Viking, 2014.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780670016556 (hardback), 0670016551 (hardback)
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Published
New York : Viking, 2014.
Language
English
ISBN
9780670016556 (hardback), 0670016551 (hardback)
Notes
Description
"The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing. "The memory that we live with is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been." Memory and history have been Penelope Lively's terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her influences and formative years. Dancing Fish and Ammonites traces the arc of Lively's life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of Britain's twentieth century. She reflects on her early love of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have accompanied her journey-including a sherd of Egyptian ceramic depicting dancing fish and ammonites found years ago on a Dorset beach. She also writes insightfully about aging and what life looks like from where she now stands"--,Provided by publisher.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 823.914 LIVELY LIV | Available |
Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 823.914 LIV | Available |
New Providence Memorial Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIO Lively Liv | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lively, P. (2014). Dancing fish and ammonites: a memoir . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lively, Penelope, 1933-. 2014. Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir. Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lively, Penelope, 1933-. Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir Viking, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lively, Penelope. Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir Viking, 2014.
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