{"product_id":"somewhere-towards-the-end-a-memoir-9780393338003","title":"Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailed as \"a virtuoso exercise\" (\u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e), this book reflects candidly, sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old. Charming readers, writers, and critics alike, the memoir won the Costa Award for Biography and made Athill, then ninety-one, a surprising literary star.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiana Athill was one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Athill made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Writing in her ninety-first year, \"entirely untamed about both old and new conventions\" (\u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e) and freed from any of the inhibitions that even she may have once had, Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old--the losses and occasionally the gains that age brings, the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Distinguished by \"remarkable intelligence...[and the] easy elegance of her prose\" (\u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e), this short, well-crafted book, hailed as \"a virtuoso exercise\" (\u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e) presents an inspiring work for those hoping to flourish in their later years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAthill, Diana:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - After a distinguished career as a book editor, \u003cstrong\u003eDiana Athill\u003c\/strong\u003e (1917--2019) won the National Book Critics Circle and Costa Biography Awards for her \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling memoir \u003cem\u003eSomewhere Towards the End\u003c\/em\u003e. In January 2009, she was presented with an Order of the British Empire.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627554050322,"sku":"9780393338003","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5d4f6349-029d-47d5-b34a-c155b48a785a.jpg?v=1732676073","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/somewhere-towards-the-end-a-memoir-9780393338003","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}