An Education - Brossura

Barber, Lynn

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141044144 ISBN 13: 9780141044149

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2009

Riassunto

Lynn Barber's true story, now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby.

At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life.

Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, revealing how it left her with an abiding mistrust of men which paradoxically led her to a promiscuous life-style at university until she met her husband-to-be. An Education tells how she went on to work for seven years at daring (for the times) men's magazine Penthouse before beginning her starry days as the Demon Barber - Britain's most entertaining and most feared interviewer. The book ends with an extraordinarily moving account of the early death of her husband. Her writing is refreshingly frank and funny.

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L'autore:

Lynn Barber studied English at Oxford University. She began her career in journalism at Penthouse, and has since worked for a number of major British newspapers and for Vanity Fair. She currently writes for the Observer. She has published two volumes of her celebrated interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

'A cautionary tale, a tragedy of innocence lost' Sunday Telegraph

1960: A stranger in a sports car offered sixteen-year-old
Lynn Barber a lift. It changed her life.

The stranger charmed his way not only into Lynn's life, but also that of her parents. He took her virginity, whisked her off to Paris, introduced her to his charming friends, and even offered to make her his wife. But he was neither who nor what he said he was. And only when Lynn's parents were on the point of accepting him into their family, did she realise the mistake she'd made in accepting that lift.

Lynn Barber shows how this strange affair coloured the rest of her life - what she wanted from men and her instinctive distrust of others.

'Bracingly sharp. A chilling glimpse into the guileless limbo between girlhood and adulthood' Sunday Times

'Thrillingly readable, you'll want to finish it in one sitting' Tatler

'Moving, funny, frank' Evening Standard

'Magnificent, searing, honest' Mail on Sunday

'Absolutely marvellous, shocking, pacy, witty' Spectator

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141044144
• ISBN 13: 9780141044149
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192