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An Education - 9781934633854

Un libro in lingua di Lynn Barber edito da W W Norton & Co Inc, 2010

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When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroonsports car pulled up beside her and offered her a ride. Itwas an encounter that would change her life. Her parentswere as infatuated with “Simon”--the name she gives himin the book--as the adolescent Barber was, and dazzled byhis worldliness. Simon introduced her to a world of luxuryhotels and posh hotels and trips abroad. The problem wasthat he was married and had a child.

Admitted to Oxford, she studied English literature and“bedded” more undergraduates than she could count, twopreoccupations that prepared her for the literary life. InLondon she got a job at Penthouse, had a brief stint atVanity Fair, and eventually became one of England's mostfamous and feared interviewers. Her profiles in The Observerwere memorable for their acerbity. At the approachof sixty, her husband, an artist, entered upon a long strugglewith cancer. The trials and tensions that followed her husband'sdiagnosis and subsequent botched operation revealthe complexities of marriage and the hidden mysteries ineveryone's life--even a spouse of twenty-two years.

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