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  • Ammonites and Leaping Fish

  • A Life in Time
  • By: Penelope Lively
  • Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
  • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)
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Summary

This is not quite a memoir. Rather, it is the view from old age. And a view of old age itself, this place at which we arrive with a certain surprise - ambushed, or so it can seem. One of the few advantages of age is that you can report on it with a certain authority; you are a native now, and know what goes on here.

Taking in old age, the context of one's life and times, memory, reading and writing, and the identifying cargo of possessions - two ammonites, a cat, a pair of American ducks, and a leaping fish sherd, amongst others - this is an elegant, moving, and deeply enjoyable memoir by one of our most loved writers.

©2013 Penelope Lively (P)2014 Isis Publishing Ltd

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