Dancing Fish and Ammonites : : a Memoir
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"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 trace 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 shard 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.
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PUBLISHED
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781628990546
1628990546
SUBJECTS
Lively, Penelope, -- 1933-
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
English literature -- Women authors -- Biography.
Autobiographical memory.