Making it up

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  • Author: Lively, Penelope
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    "Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]... than Penelope Lively." — The Washington Post. An intelligent examination of alternative destinies, choices, and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path, from Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively. In this fascinating piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks "what if" she had made other choices: What if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18? If she had married someone else? If she had taken a different job? If she had lived her life abroad? These stories offer a sublime dance between reality and imagination, inviting the reader to ask similar questions.

    Genre: Short stories
    Original Publisher: New York , Penguin Books , London , Penguin
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781440627224

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"Nobody writes more astutely or affectingly about [love]... than Penelope Lively." — The Washington Post. An intelligent examination of alternative destinies, choices, and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path, from Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively. In this fascinating piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks "what if" she had made other choices: What if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18? If she had married someone else? If she had taken a different job? If she had lived her life abroad? These stories offer a sublime dance between reality and imagination, inviting the reader to ask similar questions.

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Short stories
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Penguin Books

London

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