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Item Details
Title:
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DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT
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By: |
Diana Athill |
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Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1862074410 |
ISBN 13: |
9781862074415 |
Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
Pub. date: |
1 August, 2001 |
Pages: |
192 |
Description: |
In England half a century ago well-brought-up women were meant to aspire to the respectable life. Meg progresses from school to art college with few outward signs of passion or frustration. But when she gets a job and moves to London, Meg does something shocking, even by today's standards. |
Synopsis: |
In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be spoken of; some are most certainly not to be done. There are rules, conventions. Meg Bailey obeys them. She progresses from Home Counties school to un-Bohemian art college with few outward signs of passion or frustration. Her personality is submerged in polite routines; even with her best friend, Roxane, what can't be said looms far larger than what can. But circumstances change. Meg gets a job and moves to London. Roxane gets married to a man picked out by her mother. And then Meg does something shocking - shocking not only by the standards of her time, but by our own. As sharp and startling now as when it was written, Don't Look at Me Like That matches Diana Athill's memoirs After a Funeral and Instead of a Letter in its gift of storytelling and its unflinching candour about love and betrayal. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Granta Books |
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Returnable |
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